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In an effort to get the paper drawings digitalized in a more ognition (OCR) and natural language processing (NLP). He ef? cient manner, Australian engineering company Worley said AI can adapt the concepts of pattern recognition, text is using AI to process scanned drawings and automatically recognition and line segment recognition to develop a model redraw them on a digital platform. that learns to recognize components of an engineering draw-

According to Kalicharan Mahasivabhattu, a global data- ing, even hand-written notes and sketch markups.

science manager at Worley, human cognitive abilities are AI systems can be trained to recognize drawings’ visual no longer needed to process information from content and provide a simpli? ed context. AI-based algo- drawings thanks to the emergence of technologies rithms can then read a scanned process and instrumentation such as computer vision, optical character rec- diagram to recognize graphical content such as instruments,

Ivar Aasen, operated by Aker BP, is the ? rst manned platform on the

Norwegian continental shelf to be controlled from land.

Source: Aker BP

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