Tolr automates FAI prep from drawing PDF upload to ballooned print and measurement-ready CSV output. It reduces manual transfer steps and speeds inspection report preparation.
1. Upload: Securely upload your PDF engineering drawing through our browser interface.
2. Process: Tolr automatically identifies dimensions, generates balloon markers, and extracts characteristic data.
3. Download: Get your ballooned print (PDF) and a structured CSV file ready for measurement entry and inspection reporting.
No workflow system integration required. Works as a standalone prep tool alongside your existing QMS or inspection software.
All files are encrypted in transit (TLS 1.3) and at rest (AES-256). We never use your drawings for training, and we do not sell or share customer data.
Retention controls: You set your own data retention policy by deployment profile, with automatic cleanup for expired files.
Compliance ready: We offer private deployment options for ITAR, EAR, and other regulated environments.
Audit trail: Every upload, process, and download is logged with timestamps and user attribution for full traceability.
Cloud (Standard): Multi-tenant SaaS deployment with tenant-level data isolation. Fastest to deploy and lowest maintenance.
Private Cloud: Dedicated instance in our cloud environment with full data isolation, custom retention policies, and dedicated support.
Private / Dedicated: For ITAR or other regulated environments, deployed with stricter control over data locality and access.
All deployment options include the same core feature set. Contact our team to choose the right configuration for your security and compliance requirements.
Our Story
After 10 years as a metrology tech, metrology engineer, then lab manager and 1,000s of FAIs later, we finally got so sick of ballooning and typing out the dimensions of each drawing. This was about the time in 2024 when AI was really starting to take off, so we thought "there has to be some AI company out there that can automatically balloon and extract drawings". Well, it turns out, we were wrong - extracting dimensions from a ballooned print turns out to be very difficult without a local LLM. After searching for weeks and multiple demos, we came to realize that the 3 or 4 companies that can read and balloon prints are legacy brands that have been around for 20 years with outdated architecture. Their UI was annoying, the cost was astronomical, they were slow, and we had to wait 2 weeks for IT to approve our download. In the end, we just kept ballooning and dimensioning manually for the remainder of 2024.
After the new year I came back to my desk with 10 FAIs that had over 200 dimensions each and spent the entire week ballooning, literally 40 hours of data entry. I couldn't take it anymore, so we set out to create our own automatic ballooning and dimensioning software.
A year and a half later and hundreds of tests, we are so excited to finally release it to the public. My entire adult professional life has been spent in a quality lab, and I can honestly say Tolr is the best thing to happen to my own workflow. I'm able to skip the data entry, and free up 20 hours a month just for myself.
We set to improve as much as we could on the legacy brands: faster dimensioning, more accurate placement, and a simpler UI. I believe that we have far exceeded any of our competitors in those metrics, I hope that you make the decision to use Tolr in your workflow and experience it for yourself!
Tolr Team
Start with your first 3 drawings free. See if it is a fit, then scale with the plan that matches your team.