Bad Marine LLC
BAD MARINE LLC
ppie · field extraction for scanned paper crash reports
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Drop a scanned crash report in, see what comes out the other side

ppie reads a scanned NDOT crash form and reports every box's value, its confidence, and where it was found -- no code interpretation, no guessing what a field "should" say. Drop in any of the forms it knows (it figures out which one on its own -- no need to tell it): Form 174 (Heavy Truck/Bus Supplement), Form 178 (Non-Motorist Supplement), Form 179 (Fatal Crash Report), Form 40 (Investigator's Motor Vehicle Crash Report), Form 40a (Investigator's Motor Vehicle Crash Continuation Report), DR-41 (Driver's Report of Motor Vehicle Crash). Download a sample scan to try it without using a real report.

This is a browser demo of an engine built to run on real hardware. ppie is a heavy OCR / computer-vision pipeline meant to sit on-prem on an agency's own machine, where it works through a full multi-page crash packet in one pass. This page runs it on a small shared cloud box, so it reads the first 3 pages of whatever you drop in and stops there -- enough to see exactly what it does. Single-sheet forms come back whole. Want the version with no page limit? Get in touch and we'll walk you through a real install.
Uploads are processed in memory and discarded the moment the result comes back -- nothing is written to disk or logged here. Still, if you have one on hand, the sample scan above is the safer way to try this without handing over a real report.
Click to choose a file, or drag one here PDF, or an image of one scanned page
Extracting the first 3 pages… this runs real OCR + registration and can take a minute or two. Keep this tab open.
This is an evaluation front door for the ppie engine -- on-prem, pluggable, point it at your own forms and endpoints. Want more details, or interested in licensing this? Contact Bad Marine LLC — Sean@badmarinellc.com.