nirnayaak

Blog link: https://soumyajitdatta.hashnode.dev/introducing-nirnayaak-the-ai-behind-revolutionary-web-application-simplifying-legal-research

nirnayaak is a web application that allows users to search for legal cases using keywords and view the results in a user-friendly manner. This is the backend repository for the project. Hosted in AWS at ml-backend.nirnayaak.co

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

pip install -r requirements.txt

and then, to run the server:

python app.py

Key Features

• Search for cases using keywords
• Upload PDFs of cases
• Authorization and Authentication
• Get Keywords for auto-complete
• Sorting algorithm for search results
• Authorization using AES Encryption

Key Technologies and Libraries Used

• Python
• Flask
• MongoDB
• Pytessaract
• pdf2image
• Spacy
• TextBlob
• NLTK
• YAKE
• PIL
• wordfreq
• AWS S3 Bucket
• AWS EC2 instance

Postman API Documentation

Postman API Documentation

Preprocessing and Keyword Extraction Procedure

Keyword Extraction is done using unsupervised ML algo called Yet Another Ranking Algorithm(YAKE). The keywords are then stored in the database along with the case.