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Annotate, Trace, and Ask AI About Schematic PDFs
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Documentation tool for EEs to document and navigate their designs better. Upload your schematic PDFs to the tool and you will be able to annotate, pull data sheets of different components directly from Digikey, ask AI about your schematic, trace signals across different boards, embedded BOM data directly to components, and more, without ever having to leave the PDF viewer.
HN · launched Oct 28, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 90%) · 0 views
Niche: ai document processing software · 114 launches, 11 in the last 7 days ▲ +10% · Explore this niche →
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- Search & retrieval
- B2B
- AI feature
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Could you build this?
Partial Annotation, datasheet lookup from DigiKey, and AI Q&A over PDFs are vibe-codeable, but tracing signals across schematics requires parsing diagrams into netlists, which is a hard computer-vision and EDA problem.
What it would actually take: The stack is a PDF viewer with annotation, a DigiKey API integration, and a RAG pipeline over extracted text. The hard piece is converting schematic PDFs into a machine-readable netlist (vector parsing plus symbol and net recognition) to trace signals across boards, which requires EDA domain knowledge and substantial testing against real designs.
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Feature requests: API access for extracting data from PDFs
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 215 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #216 of 216 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 314 days after the earliest competitor.
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