Anuvaad (Document Translation Platform)

Project Anuvaad is an open-source Document Translation platform to translate documents in Indic languages at scale. Anuvaad provides editing capabilities with maker-checker flow along with plug & play NMT models. It was bootstrapped by EkStep Foundation in late 2019 as a solution to enable easier translation of legal documents from English to Indic languages & vice-versa. Creating Anuvaad platform allowed legal entities to digitize & translate the Orders/Judgements using an easy to use user interface.

Overview
Anuvaad leverages state of the art AI/ML models including NMT, OCR, Layout detection to provide high level of accuracy. Project Anuvaad was envisioned to be end to end open sourced solution for document translation across multiple domains.

Instances
Independent instances of Anuvaad was deployed in Supreme Court of India (SUVAS) and Supreme Court of Bangladesh (Amar Vasha). As of Oct 2023, more than 40k legal documents were translated & reviewed across 22 Indic languages, using this platform.