Documents from QOMET ask questions of your project files and get the source.

Yes: the old folder can be connected in the same way as the QOMET directory, or you can upload it – whole folder trees at once, if need be. As documents are read in, the system picks out the customer, project and date by itself; the document type is confirmed by someone on your side during the first run, because it decides who sees the document later. The old costings are often the most useful part, for example when a customer wants the same railing again years later. The demo shows this with sample documents from your industry; you’ll test it with your own old documents in the first weeks after go-live.

The search works on content, not file names. The order number is actually a useful key: from the customer and project export, the system knows which numbers belong to which customer and which site. So a question about a customer reaches their orders, and the answer gives the source, including the number, so you can check it. Nothing is renamed – your structure stays the way it has grown.

That’s up to you. Permissions are tied to document types and roles, not to individual files: drawings, bills of materials and manufacturer documents for the workshop, say, and costings, post-job costings and contribution margins for the master craftsmen. You can also set a cut-off date, so that the apprentice workshop only sees documents from the current year onwards. If someone lacks permission, the system tells them so rather than giving an answer with the figure quietly left out.

Whatever is in them as text: the title block with order and drawing number, revision status, material, item numbers and the bill of materials in the corner. That means a drawing can be found by its content, not just its file name, and the answer gives the file and sheet as the source. Old scanned drawings go through text recognition (OCR) as they are read in – how well that works on faded copies only becomes clear with your actual documents. The geometry itself is not in the text: a dimension can only be read where it is actually dimensioned.