Where did the Bills Of Quantity go??
There is a "tool" a programme called Xactimate" or Xactaware.
BUT [there is a "But"]
This programme is used by many Insurance Contractors and COSTS every time it is used. the end user has to enter the dimensions of each room doors windows Et.-All the programme can then produce a [sort of] cutting list for material areas of plasterboard, brick, lengths of architraves, lengths of Skirting s Etc. Etc.
I have used several "Insurance Based" Estimating tools / Schedules that produced man hours / material quantities on a "global scale"
Both of the above require dimensions for all rooms, Xactimate can also allow for drawings to be made within the programme then the background programme produces all of the above.
Big problem is that I have never seen a programme that can / could take a scanned image and produce quantities, that is why there are Quantity Surveyors and Estimators ? Who can only work with fully annotated dimentioned drawings.