Verity

Verity is a web application that helps users navigate complex government documentation workflows: such as applying for a social security numbers, verifying I-20s, or immigration paperwork.

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Inspiration

Oftentimes when dealing with immigration documents and government agencies it can be stressful and time consuming. On one hand you're dealing with documents that need to be processed in a time efficient manner, but often times minor oversights can lead to delays that can come with major consequences.

What it does

Our app serves to solve that, we built an app that let's you choose which kind of application you're applying for and/or verify your documents. You can manually redact info/type in just the basic info. While redacting any info that can tie the documents back to your identify. Then AI runs through the redacted info you've provided it and can give you feedback on your application. This can oftentimes help catch really small errors, like let's say you accidentally typed in your birthplace in your application as it's current name, but on your passport it's listed as the name of the place at the time of your birth. AI can catch this small but crucial mistake and help you fix it.

How we built it

We built the multiple components out, starting from reading the pdf's to then redacting the info from the pdfs before. Then we built the AI chatbot, as well as a way for users to interact with the chatbot.

Challenges we ran into

Reading the pdf and redacting the info from it proved to be more difficult than expected. Additionally, since it was my first time actually developing a web application on my own, learning how to connect the backend and frontend to everything was a learning curve.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

The AI chatbot in conjunction with the pdf reader/manual entry form works really well. It's able to extract info and specifically pinpoint issues that as regular people who are not entirely familiar with the process for certain paperwork can be difficult.

What we learned

Web development, using open AI API, the tesseract API, github.

What's next for Verity

Adding a voice chatbot feature to help the elderly population who use it. In addition, adding the option to provide assistance in different languages.

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