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The situation
A certified copy from a district court, photocopied twice on the way to your office, carrying a rubber stamp over the text and a staple hole through a date. A deposition recorded in longhand. An order in Telugu with the operative portion in English. This is not an edge case; it is what a trial court record looks like.
A tool that reads clean born-digital PDFs will process this file without complaining and produce text that is quietly wrong, which is far more dangerous than producing nothing.
Why it is hard
Confident wrong text is the real failure
A figure misread from a faded page becomes a figure in a draft. Nothing downstream knows it was a guess unless the system that made it says so.
Handwriting in a deposition is evidence
It cannot be approximated. Where the writing is genuinely illegible the only honest output is a marker saying so at that point, placed so a person can go and look.
Mixed scripts in one page are normal
English, Devanagari, Telugu and Tamil in a single order, often in a single paragraph. Language detection per document rather than per passage loses most of it.
How we approach it
Kanoon IQ reads the record as it arrives: faded photocopies, bookmarked and handwritten depositions, and orders mixing scripts within a page. Where the source is unreadable, the output carries an uncertainty marker at that position with a link to the page image, rather than a plausible guess.
Everything extracted stays anchored to the page image it came from, so any figure, name or date in a draft can be checked against the original in one click. That anchoring is what makes the extraction usable as evidence rather than as a convenience.
What changes
- Faded, stamped and photocopied certified copies read rather than skipped
- Illegible passages marked as illegible instead of guessed
- Mixed-script pages handled per passage, not per document
- Every extraction links back to the page image behind it
Next
Is this your problem too?
Bring the version of it you actually have. We will tell you what it would take, including when the answer is that it is not worth doing.