Chiranth7954 / law__--less

Legal advice web service

[--less is more]

[--less is more is a framework that reads giant documents and summarizes them using a summarization algorithm]

• Summarization algorithm
• Open Source GUI contribute framework
• Machine Learning

USAGE

• [Law --Less]

• Law --Less uses the --Less is More framework to read in legal documents, scanning for
  the type of infraction, the law in question, and the punishment being faced, among other
  things. With a database of over 40,000 cases from a University of California at Irvine
  database, Law --Less can also return legal precedents from previous cases.
  

BUILD/INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS

• To install dependencies,

pip install flask
pip install PyPDF2

To run,

python app.py

• Download click

• Download Flask

• Download itsdangerous

• Download Jinja2

• Download MarkupSafe

• Download pdfminer

• Download pycrypto

• Download Werkzeug

• Setting Up Azure

  • Note: It is not necessary to setup your own Azure, but if you would like to run this on your own server here is the way we did it.
  • Visit: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/ and create an account
  • From here we used a Linux VM to host our site (this process is explained here)
    • http://timmyreilly.azurewebsites.net/running-flask-on-ubuntu-vm/
  • The other way to host, hosts directly from github
    • https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/app-service-web/app-service-deploy-local-git

Contributor Guide

[Contributor guide for this project] (CONTRIBUTING_LessIsMore.md)

License

[Licensing for this project] (LICENSE.md)