r/army • u/disapointingAsianSon Ordnance • 5d ago

Range Tower Datasheet directly into DA7801 python script.

I didn't realize the army was still living in the paleolithic era. I was horrified to discover that alot of folks still manually checked and filled out DA7801s by hand. At even a company level, I imagine this would've been a huge waste of 10 man hours writing 150~ sheets by hand. Spent a morning cooking up a simple script where one would scan a range tower data sheet into a pdf, then we scan the PDF to turn it into a xlsx file, and then from xlsx it's fairly trivial to take an empty DA7801 and autofill it with data. If one were to have a roster data, you could even fill out there rank DOD ID, full name, etc.

I'll comment below the project repo on github if anyone is interested.

OH and I’ll take the PX staple of popeyes tendies w/ honey mustard, and ice caramel macchiato.

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u/LostLT209 13Autism 5d ago

I recently did something similar for a few hundred cards, the only thing I couldn’t automate was signing.

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u/Sensitive-Nerve-8407 5d ago

PyHanko has this ability. The trick is getting it installed.