Does this tool calculate pass or fail from the tolerance?

No, deliberately not. The tool copies the pass/fail value exactly as it appears on your document and never computes it from the nominal and tolerance. Calculating conformance is a quality decision that must stay with your inspection authority, and your customer's auditors will expect the determination to trace back to the source inspection record.

Are my Form 3 files uploaded to a server?

No. All parsing happens inside your browser using JavaScript. No file is transmitted anywhere. You can verify this yourself: open your browser developer tools, switch to the Network tab, then drag in a file — you will see zero outbound requests carrying your document.

Does it work with handwritten inspection sheets?

No. This version reads typed PDFs that contain a text layer, such as Form 3 pages exported from a QMS or CAD system. Handwritten shop-floor check sheets are a substantially harder recognition problem and are not supported. For those, use the paste box or a general document-extraction service.

Which columns does it extract from Form 3?

Fifteen columns: Item, Char. No., Dimension / Feature, Nominal, Tol +, Tol −, Actual, Pass / Fail, Inspection Date, Inspector, Gage ID, NC Code, Disposition, Inspection Type, and Source File. These map to the AS9102 Form 3 fields for characteristic number, specification, tolerance, measured result, determination, method, gage ID and nonconformance.

Is AS9102 the same as GJB 908 first article qualification?

No. They are separate standards covering similar ground. Chinese domestic military programmes generally follow GJB 908 first article qualification, while SAE AS9102 first article inspection applies to civil aviation and international collaboration programmes. This tool implements AS9102 only.

Can I use it on a phone or tablet?

Yes. The interface is mobile-first and switches from a spreadsheet grid to one card per row on screens narrower than 900 pixels, so rows remain editable on a phone. Numeric fields open the numeric keypad.

AS9102 Form 3 → Excel · runs in your browser

Turn AS9102 Form 3 into Excel

Q: What is AS9102 Form 3?

AS9102 Form 3, titled Characteristic Accountability, is the part of an AS9102 First Article Inspection (FAI) report that lists every design characteristic of a part together with its specification, tolerance, measured result, pass/fail determination, inspection method and gage ID. Form 1 covers part number accountability and Form 2 covers product accountability for materials and special processes.

Q: Does it integrate with Net-Inspect, InspectionXpert or Discus?

No. This tool only produces an Excel file. It does not connect to any inspection platform. That is intentional: integrations require IT approval, per-customer configuration and vendor onboarding, all of which are exactly the costs this tool exists to avoid.

Drop in an AS9102 Form 3 (FAI Characteristic Accountability) document and get a 15-column spreadsheet back. Characteristic number, nominal, tolerances, actual value, pass/fail, gage ID — with the source file and page recorded on every row.

Files never leave your device. Parsing runs in JavaScript inside your browser. No upload, no account.
Fifteen AS9102 columns, pre-configured. You never name a column or draw a template box.
No pass/fail calculation. The determination is copied from your document, not recomputed.
Real .xlsx output that opens in Excel, LibreOffice, Numbers and WPS.

3 free pages — no signup, no card.

Drop your Form 3 here, or tap to choose

.pdf .csv .txt · or use “Paste table” below

Where did my file go?

Nowhere. This page has no backend. To confirm: open your browser’s developer tools, choose the Network tab, then drop in a Form 3. You will see no request carrying your document. That matters when the drawing or the dimensional data is ITAR- or EAR-controlled.

Input — Form 3

1  Bore Ø12.000  +0.050  -0.050  12.013  Pass
2  Boss Ø8.500   +0.025   0.000   8.510  Pass
3  Length 24.000  +0.010  -0.010  24.988  Fail

Output — Excel

Char  Nominal  Tol+   Tol-   Actual  P/F
 1    12.000   +0.050 -0.050 12.013  Pass
 2     8.500   +0.025  0.000  8.510  Pass
 3    24.000   +0.010 -0.010 24.988  Fail

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The Pass / Fail column copies what your document says — it is never calculated from the tolerance. Yellow cells are low-confidence; confirm them against the source.

What AS9102 Form 3 actually is

What is AS9102 Form 3?

AS9102 Form 3 is titled Characteristic Accountability. It is one of the three forms in a First Article Inspection (FAI) report defined by SAE AS9102. Form 3 lists every design characteristic of a part — balloon number, specification, tolerance, measured result, pass/fail determination, inspection method and gage ID. Form 1 is Part Number Accountability; Form 2 is Product Accountability for materials, specifications and special processes.

AS9102: The SAE standard Aerospace First Article Inspection Requirement. Invoked by AS9100-based quality systems and flowed down to suppliers by aerospace primes and tier-1s.
FAI: First Article Inspection — a planned, complete, independent and documented inspection and process verification confirming that a defined production process can produce a conforming part.
FAIR: First Article Inspection Report — the deliverable package. It includes AS9102 Form 1, Form 2 and Form 3.
Characteristic: A design feature with a stated requirement. On aerospace drawings each characteristic gets a balloon number that Form 3 uses to trace a measurement back to the drawing.
Gage ID / gage R&R: The identifier of the measuring equipment used. It links a measurement to calibration records and to the Measurement Systems Analysis study required by PPAP Element 8.

Why Form 3 gets retyped by hand

Manufacturing digitised how inspections are performed. What it largely did not digitise is what happens to the data after the inspection. A shop floor still produces several incompatible artefacts in one production cycle — a typed Form 3 exported from a QMS, a handwritten in-process check sheet, a supplier certificate attached by the receiving clerk — and all of them have to feed the same downstream columns.

So someone sits down and retypes measurements into a spreadsheet. The data entry is done twice: once on paper, once in Excel. On a part with 150 ballooned characteristics across six sample pieces, that is 900 cells transcribed by hand, before anyone has done a single minute of quality analysis.

The bottleneck was never the analysis. It was getting the numbers out of the document and into a table. See the full breakdown on the product page.

Where this tool sits in the FAI toolchain

Not a replacement for a QMS — a replacement for retyping.
Stage	Typical tooling	What this tool does
Performing the inspection	CMM, calipers, micrometers, hand tools	Nothing
Ballooning the drawing	CAD add-ins, FAI software	Nothing
Drawing-to-measurement matching	FAI platforms, engineering BPOs	Nothing
Filling AS9102 Forms 1/2/3	FAI platforms, customer templates	Nothing
Getting an existing Form 3 into a spreadsheet	Manual retyping	This is the job
Submitting to the customer	Net-Inspect, InspectionXpert, Discus, portal	Nothing — you upload the .xlsx yourself

The 15 columns you get

Column	Maps to	Why it matters
Item	Row sequence	Keeps your ordering stable
Char. No.	AS9102 Form 3 Field 8	Balloon number — the link back to the drawing
Dimension / Feature	Field 10	What is being measured
Nominal	Field 11	Target value
Tol + / Tol −	Field 11	Upper and lower specification limits
Actual	Field 12	The measured result
Pass / Fail	Field 12	Copied from the document, never recomputed
Inspection Date	ISO 9001:2015 clause 8.6	Release traceability
Inspector	AS9102 Form 1 Field 20	Identifies the authority responsible for release
Gage ID	Field 13	Links to calibration and MSA records
NC Code	Field 14	Nonconformance classification
Disposition	ISO 9001:2015 clause 8.7	Accept / rework / scrap / use-as-is
Inspection Type	—	FAI, IPQC, Final or Receiving
Source File	—	File and page each row came from — your audit trail

Frequently asked questions

What is AS9102 Form 3?

Form 3 is the Characteristic Accountability form in an AS9102 First Article Inspection report. It lists every design characteristic with its specification, tolerance, measured result, pass/fail determination, inspection method and gage ID. See the full Form 3 reference.

Does it calculate pass or fail for me?

No — deliberately. The tool copies the pass/fail value exactly as printed and never derives it from nominal and tolerance. Conformance is a quality decision that belongs to your inspection authority, and an auditor will expect the determination to trace back to the source inspection record.

Are my files uploaded anywhere?

No. Every step runs in your browser. Verify it: open developer tools → Network tab → drop in a file. No request carries your document.

Does it read handwritten inspection sheets?

No. This version handles typed PDFs with a text layer — Form 3 pages exported from a QMS or CAD system. Handwritten shop-floor sheets are a much harder recognition problem and are out of scope. Use the paste box for those, or a general document-extraction service.

Does it integrate with Net-Inspect, InspectionXpert or Discus?

No. It produces an Excel file and nothing else. Integrations need IT approval, per-customer configuration and vendor onboarding — exactly the costs this tool exists to avoid.

Is AS9102 the same as GJB 908?

No. They are separate standards covering similar ground. Chinese domestic military programmes generally follow GJB 908 first article qualification; SAE AS9102 first article inspection applies to civil aviation and international collaboration programmes. This tool implements AS9102 only, and the two use different form templates.

Can I use it on a phone?

Yes. Below 900 pixels the grid becomes one card per row, so rows stay editable on a phone. Numeric fields open the numeric keypad.

What happens after the free pages run out?

3 pages are free each month with no signup. After that it is $29 per year for unlimited conversions, cancel anytime. See pricing.

Try it

Drop a Form 3 into the converter above, or read the Form 3 field reference first if you want to know exactly what will be extracted.

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