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Beam AI Takeoff Software
✓ verifiedPaid
AI construction takeoff and estimating software that automates quantity takeoffs across trades for contractors, subs and suppliers.
50K visits/mo
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Image to Text Converter
✓ verifiedFreemium
Free-tier AI OCR that batch-extracts editable text from images, with paid plans for larger volumes and formatted output.
5.8M visits/mo
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PDFgear
✓ verifiedFree
Free desktop and web PDF suite for editing, converting, OCR, and signing, with built-in AI chat and summarization.
3.0M visits/mo310 saves
Pricing
No public pricing
Premium: $8/mo (15,000 credits, 50 images/submission)
Standard: $10/mo
Higher tier: $40/mo
No public pricing
Core features
- ✦AI-automated quantity takeoffs
- ✦Estimating across many trades
- ✦Done-for-you takeoff service
- ✦Support for contractors, subs and suppliers
- ✦AI OCR image-to-text
- ✦Batch conversion up to 1000 images
- ✦Simple and formatted output modes
- ✦Multiple image formats supported
- ✦API access
- ✦Ad-free paid tiers
- ✦Edit text, images, and form fields in PDFs
- ✦Convert between PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and images
- ✦OCR with 30+ language support
- ✦Annotate with highlights, notes, and stamps
- ✦AI chat and summarization built into the app
- ✦Cross-device sync across desktop, web, and mobile
Use cases
- →Producing fast, accurate takeoffs
- →Preparing construction bids
- →Estimating material quantities
- →Preconstruction planning
- →Copying text from photos and screenshots
- →Extracting notes from whiteboard/class images
- →Digitizing printed documents
- →Bulk OCR via API
- →Editing and converting PDFs without paying for Adobe Acrobat
- →Summarizing long PDFs with built-in AI chat
- →OCR-ing scanned documents into editable text
- →Signing documents on desktop or mobile
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