Legalisers - Legal Document Analysis Chatbot

A sophisticated legal document analysis system that combines RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) with modern web technologies to provide intelligent document processing and chat capabilities.

🚀 Features

• Document upload and processing (PDF, DOCX support)
• Intelligent chat interface for legal document analysis
• RAG-based document retrieval and generation
• Real-time communication between frontend and backend
• Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) enabled for development

🛠️ Tech Stack

Frontend

• React 18
• Vite
• Axios for API communication
• Modern CSS styling

Backend

• FastAPI
• ChromaDB for document storage
• Sentence Transformers for text embedding
• Google's Generative AI
• spaCy for NLP tasks
• PyPDF2 and python-docx for document processing

📋 Prerequisites

• Node.js (for frontend)
• Python 3.x (for backend)
• npm or yarn package manager

🚀 Getting Started

Frontend Setup

1. Navigate to the frontend directory:

   cd frontend

2. Install dependencies:

   npm install

3. Run development server:

   npm run dev

   The frontend will be available at http://localhost:5173

Backend Setup

1. Navigate to the backend directory:

   cd backend

2. Install Python dependencies:

   pip install fastapi uvicorn chromadb sentence-transformers google-generativeai spacy pypdf2 python-docx

3. Run the FastAPI server:

   uvicorn legal_rag_api:app --reload

   The backend API will be available at http://localhost:8000

🏗️ Project Structure

.
├── README.md
├── backend/
│   └── legal_rag_api.py         # FastAPI backend server
└── frontend/
    ├── src/
    │   ├── components/
    │   │   ├── ChatBox.jsx      # Chat interface component
    │   │   ├── MessageBubble.jsx # Individual message component
    │   │   └── UploadBox.jsx    # Document upload component
    │   ├── App.jsx              # Main application component
    │   └── main.jsx             # Application entry point
    ├── index.html
    ├── package.json
    └── vite.config.js

🤝 Contributing

1. Fork the repository
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b feature/AmazingFeature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add some AmazingFeature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/AmazingFeature)
5. Open a Pull Request

📝 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

👥 Authors

• vanditajain-29
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