Pdf To Cad Converter Bluebeam

[Gano Richardson]

Hithere, I remember years ago their was a method to bring in a PDF from bluebeam and it being able to be converted into revit elements?

I have found this video with dynamo scripts being used, but wondering if anyone can remember another way? Not sure if it was an add-in or just the way the PDFs were exported from Bluebeam.

The Bluebeam OCR (optical character recognition) tool can transform scanned PDF files into searchable and editable files. This OCR tool is available in Bluebeam Revu, a software program to create, markup and edit PDFs. Our article will show you how to use Bluebeam OCR, and what to do when Bluebeam OCR not working.

Bluebeam is construction software for architects and engineers to collaborate on projects. It can create and edit PDF, markup, measure, sign and OCR files, work in real-time collaboration. It has both desktop and cloud version, called Bluebeam Revu, but only the desktop versions supports OCR.

To find out why Bluebeam OCR not recognizing the text in your PDF, you should go to the OCR configuration window and check if you have added the file for OCR, if you have chosen the file language without error, if you have selected page range properly, or to check if you have ticked the option to skip specific pages.

If all the configurations are set up appropriately, force quit Bluebeam and restart the OCR process to check if it works. Also, you can open the file in other viewer to make sure the file is not corrupted, if yes, you have to repair it first.

This is actually more of a bug than an issue. Sometimes, after you run Bluebeam OCR on multiple scanned PDF pages or scanned images, you will find that some of the pages have been rotated automatically. The fix is easy. You can rotate these pages back to the correct orientation. Another solution is to OCR your files in other software with OCR function and then continue working on them in Revu. However, an issue like this shouldn't have happened. Hopefully it will be fixed in the new version.

In the case Bluebeam disappoint you, or you just need an eay-to-use OCR tool to make your files searchable, you can use Bluebeam OCR alternative tools. Here for Mac and Windows users, there are 2 best Bluebeam OCR alternative recommended to you.

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Here's somthing a little different. I'd like to export a .pdf using the application found in Accesories--->Cadence Tcl/Tk utilites. This gizmo (when working) produces a searchable pdf which allows one to click on components within the pdf and see properties. I've seen this work in older versions of software. Here's the hitch; I need the postscript driver path for the .pdf editor Bluebeam. I can also use the postscript friver path for Adobe Acrobat Distiller but I prefer to use Bluebeam. Attached is a .png that shows you what I am refering to. Any info will be appreciated.

Fundamentally, you need to alter the provided script, it's not a big deal but, without some careful consideration, this stuff is pretty easy to break. If you are happy to "hack" the code, try the following:

Open the capPdfUtil.tcl flle with a plain text editor, like Notepad. Locate the ::capPdfUtil::populateDefaultPSToPDFConverterList entry, you can see that this loads the mPSToPDFConverterList, follow the same format as the other entries and set another entry for your PS to PDF converter, you need a name for the converter, the exe to call, and any command switches to get the converter to run and create the PDF. Save the file. If all is well, you should be able to run the PDF export and pick your converter.

Another "nice to have" is to set your prefered converter to be "already selected", you can do this in the ::capUtil::init section, change the number for the "set ::capPdfUtil::mPSToPDFConverterOptionIndex" line to the required index, in the default program, 0 is Acrobat, 1 is Ghostscript, 2 is Custom, this means that you won't have to pick the converter every time.

If Bluebeam will not convert Postscript to PDF, this will not work. The PDF Export works by creating a Postscript file using a Postscript printer creating a file and then running that into a converter to create the PDF.

If you get a hotfix, it may overwrite the capPdfUtil.tcl file, so have another copy of your modifications. You will need to add your changes again to get the benefit of whatever the hotfix might have changed.

In the interim, I had updated Adobe reader to version X, but have since reverted back to 9.4. I have uninstalled ghostscript and reinstalled it. Given that this error is different from when it can't find gswinc32.exe at all, I am not sure if the problem is with ghost script, adobe, or something else.

I can't find a "Postscript Driver not found" message in the script, there is a "not found" like message for the PS to PDF Converter in the script. The "Postscript Driver" edit box in the UI is expecting exactly the name of your Postscript printer, the one that you configured as a "Print to File" Postscript printer.

As a first shot, I would recommend that you add the path to the "gswin32c.exe" to the PATH environment variable, TCL seems to like being a bit UNIX like in terms of directory slashes and so on and may not admire being faced with "alien" directory slashes and a directory that contains spaces, like "C:\Program Files\....."

I haven't actually configured a "Printe to File" Postcript printer. All I did was install ghostscript, and then point Capture to gswin32c.exe. This worked originally with no issues (I didn't even need to change the PATH environment variable). Because nothing changed in Capture, and because I can't find the error text in the script, I think it must be some kind of system error. I just don't know what...

We are using the Doc-Trak bundling feature for our Job Packets. This works fine for all of the bundled files with the exception of .dwg (AutoCAD drawing files). We have spoken to Lake Companies about this and they have confirmed that these files are not supported for PDF conversion and bundling but we are free to try and find some software that it will work with. Basically, just try it and see if it works. Unfortunately I have yet to find any software that allows this PDF conversion to work for these files. I have tried the following viewers:

Just looking at Bluebeam and if I am understanding correctly it is an add in to AutoCAD that presents the user with an additional toolbar which they can use to create a PDF of the file. Unfortunately this will not work for us. The Doc-Trak converter opens the target file transparently to the user and utilises the built-in functionality of the installed viewer to save that file in PDF format. As I mentioned in my original post, I have heard that the ability to do a save as PDF operation is the key here but we have not come across any viewers so far that offer this.

Bluebeam has both an add-in feature for autocad, as well as a stand alone product (revu). It has completely replaced acrobat for us due to the ease of use. Give them a call and see if their stapler will do what you need it to do.

My company recently purchased NitroPDF creator software and now half of our staff is working with Nitro and other other with Adobe. When a PDF is created in Nitro and then Edited in Adobe, some of the text turns into white and black boxes. This also happens if we get a PDF that was originally created in a software called bluebeam (these documents we receive from our clients). We've tried to print the document to PDF to try to stop these boxes from appearing but we don't have very much luck. I think what is happening is that Adobe doesn't recognize the text or font and then defaults to the "boxes". Has anyone else experienced this? Does anyone know how to fix it?

Some times these documents will be fine until you start adding/deleting pages, adding text boxes and then BOOM boxes appear. And the boxes don't appear on every single page of the document, just very select pages (usually maps and documents that were originally forms). I've attached an example of what we're experiencing below.

As this this document is created in different software, so the issues appearing while adding text box in the document is expected.You may try the KB article for Preflight tool for Fix-ups : - -problem-areas-preflight-tool.html

I've tried using the Preflight tool previously and to be honest I have no idea what I'm doing. I ran the digital printing fix and this is what I got which I don't know what it means. Also we can't recreate a document we get from other firms or clients because we don't have the source files. The reason this is such a problem is because we are relying on documents from a wide range of sources. We use those PDF files to incorporated into our documents and then use that as a final document. If we didn't need a digital copy we could print them all separately but that's not the case. As you can see this is a huge headache.

Hi Dave, thank you for your reply. I have drawn into Sketchup and imported to Layout. Then saved as a PDF. I had tried exporting from layout into a DWG however it was all black and half was missing. I have tried apps like DWG converter, Able2Extract and Bluebeam however they all display in text form

You do not state who has asked for dwgs. Are you OK to release info in dwg format rather than say pdf. Think some authorities in world ask for dwgs as well as consultants. Might mean someone can edit dwg without your knowledge. Often common to issue info in dwg (or other live format) with a pdf to ensure recipient gets reference copy to check what is show in dwg is same as in pdf.

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