EPL Assistant

This is a lightweight local chatbot for Enterprise Permitting & Licensing (EPL) guidance.

It routes answers based on:

• user role such as Administrator, Coordinator, or Reviewer
• vendor-specific context such as Bluebeam or DigEplan when relevant
• shared EPL setup and user-guide procedures

Included sources

• Guides/ReviewManagementSetupGuide-2023.pdf
• Guides/WorkflowSetupGuide-2023.pdf
• Guides/ReviewCoordinatorUserGuide-2023.pdf
• Guides/ManageTeamsUserGuide-2024.pdf
• Guides/MyReviewsSummaryUserGuide-2024.pdf
• Guides/ReviewManagementDashboardUserGuide-2024.pdf
• Guides/ManageMyReviewsUserGuide-2024-Bluebeam.pdf
• Guides/ManageMyReviewsUserGuide-2024.3-DigEplan.pdf

Live Website

🌐 https://ronaldferriero.github.io/EPLAssistant/

Run locally

Open index.html in a browser. It includes a browser-friendly local data bundle, so it should work directly from the file system.

If you prefer to run it from a simple local server:

python3 -m http.server 8000

Then open http://localhost:8000.

Rebuild the guide knowledge base

The chatbot answers from data/knowledge-base.json, which is generated from the PDFs.

1. Install pypdf if needed.
2. Run:

python3 scripts/build_knowledge_base.py

If you installed pypdf into a custom target such as /tmp/ereviews_pdf_deps, run:

PYTHONPATH=/tmp/ereviews_pdf_deps python3 scripts/build_knowledge_base.py