spec-splitter

What problem does it solve?

Construction project teams frequently work with bound, multi-hundred-page project manuals that are difficult to navigate and search, leading to significant wasted time locating specific specification requirements for tasks like submittal reviews, material sourcing, and code compliance checks.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Spec PDF Splitting: Automatically splits bound project manual PDFs into individual CSI-formatted specification section files with standardized naming conventions for easy navigation.
• Text Extraction & Quality Assurance: Extracts searchable text from each split spec section, runs automated quality assessments, and applies repair logic or vision-based fallback extraction for low-quality outputs to ensure downstream workflows function correctly.
• Use Case: For a 600-page commercial construction project manual, this skill separates each spec section (e.g., 03 30 00 Cast-in-Place Concrete) into its own navigable PDF and extracts clean, searchable text for use in submittal log generation and specification research.

Quick Start

Use the spec-splitter skill to split the bound project manual PDF 'office-building-project-manual.pdf' into individual spec section files and extract searchable text from each section.