You can find more about driving multiplexed 7 segment led display from a pic mcu in application note from microchip AN557 Four Channel Digital Voltmeter with Display and Keyboard. In my circuit the refresh rate is about 50hz.

Voltage Divider Front End
As you can seen in the schematic the 47k resistor and 10 k trim pot is connected ias a voltage divider configuration. We all know very well that by default pic micro controller ADC reference voltage is set to vcc(+5v in this case). So what we have to do is make such voltage divider that can divide out maximum range 30 volts to 5 volts. So we need is Vin/6 ==> 30/6 =5v voltage divider. And to keep as less as possible attenuation on the under test voltage we have to keep the voltage divider resistor value in few thousand ohms because it takes very little current from the target but as much to drive adc of pic.

Calculations
10bit adc resolution we get 1023 maximum count
with 5 v reference we get 5/1023 = 0.0048878 V/Count
means if the adc count is 188 then input voltage is 188 * 0.0048878 == 0.918 volts

Now with the voltage divider the maximum voltage is 30v so the calculations will be 30/1023=0.02932 volts/count
if now we get 188 then 188*0.02932=5.5 Volts

You can also increase or decrease the range by changing resistor network and the calculations a little bit.

The capacitor 0.1uf makes the adc input a bit stable because 10bit adc is really sensitive. The 5.1v zener will provide over votage protection to the internal adc because it wont allow voltage more than 5.1v.

Accuracy and calibration
Overall accuracy of this circuit is great but it totally depends on the values of 47K resistor and 10k trim pot. As fine as you can go by adjustment of the trim pot your accuracy goes fine.

Calibration of this circuit is done by adjustment of the 10k trimpot around value of 7.5k or so. All you have to do is take any standard power like 5v or 12v and apply that to the input of the resistor network and adjust the trimpot until you get correct value on the display.


Software Sorce code and Firmware
The sotware is written in c and complied using hi-tech compiler.