Work/GeoHelp
Cadastral elaborat generator for a survey office
A tool that turns the AutoCAD drawing into the Word report and Excel summary in about 10 seconds, instead of half a day of copying.
- Role
- Build + Iteration
- Duration
- 4 weeks initial, ongoing
- Stack
- Python, PySide6, ezdxf, docxtpl, openpyxl, PyInstaller
- Year
- 2026
Where it started
A cadastral survey office in Split produces an Elaborat etažiranja for every multi-unit building it certifies: a Word document that describes each apartment in legal prose, and an Excel recapitulation that totals the floor areas into ownership shares. The numbers and room lists already exist as tables drawn inside the AutoCAD DWG. The geodet was retyping them by hand into both files, twice, for every project. A single misread digit invalidates the share and the document has to be reissued. The work was simple, slow, and the kind of thing that gets worse the more tired you are at the end of a Friday.
What we did
- 01
01Reads the tables in the DWG
The surveyor still draws the same room tables in AutoCAD. The tool converts the DWG to DXF with a bundled ODA converter and pulls rooms, areas and unit labels out of the tables, even when areas use a dot or a comma and units are written S1, Stan 1 or STAN 1.
- 02
02Fills the office's own templates
The Word report and Excel summary stay the same documents the office has sent for years. The tool only writes in numbers and text; fonts, tabs, column widths and formatting stay untouched. Everything can still be adjusted by hand.
- 03
03Correct Croatian grammar
The report is prose: a flat consists of a kitchen, a room and a bathroom, with a terrace. A dictionary in the tool knows the nominative and instrumental of every room name the office uses, so the paragraphs never read like a mail merge.
- 04
04Building description from the permit
One button opens the building permit PDF and pulls out the official description of the building. A scanned PDF goes through OCR with the Croatian language pack first. The surveyor just checks the sentence.
- 05
05Runs with a double-click
One Windows .exe with everything inside: Python, the converter, OCR and the templates. Pick the DWG and the Word and Excel files land in the same folder. No install, no admin rights, no internet.
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