Structured building code inforamtion

[mfalkowski]

Is anyone aware of structured building code data?  I am interested in a bunch of things, but currently, tables in chapter 5 structured as either JSON, XML, or CSV?  I have gone ahead and made CSV versions of the tables, but it took way too long (after looking at several ways to automate the process).   The problem is, i will need to do that for each state.  I'd rather use or pay for an already existing data source.  Thank you in advance 

[jeremy_tammik]

Have you searched properly? I did a quick check for "building code chapter 5" and the results looks quite interesting:

• https://duckduckgo.com/?q=building+code+chapter+5
• https://up.codes/viewer/california/ca-building-code-2022/chapter/5/general-building-heights-and-area...

[mfalkowski]

Thanks Jeremy, nice to see you are a Duck Duck Go fan!  Yes, i've been to both.  I need this information in a structured format, and i need it for each state.  I spent about 8 hours converting tables 504.3, 504.4 and 506.2 from IBC to a text format to test a proof of concept and my project worked as desired.  The issue is we do work in multiple states in the US and the values change often (plus, I'm sure I miss typed some values) - New Jersey for instance has more restrictive area values for some building types than the IBC.  I need LOTS of data sets for these tables based on local amendments to the code.  

I attempted Ghost script to convert the tables (screen shot from web) to image, then Tesseract to extract the OCR, but didn't get a clean text scrape making it hard to programmatically sort the data.  Adobes OCR did a much better job, however that was a manual process.

I did discover the ICC has a Code API I'm hoping will have what i need. I will be looking into that.

As always... thanks for responding and thank you for your support of this community!