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Working on Tritium, the legal IDE in Rust (https://tritium.legal/)

This month I'm improving CI/CD for e2e testing across Windows, macOS, Linux and Android. Also adding support for unlocking password-protected PDFs and Word docs and improving OCR. OCR runs in the background and leverages native OS OCR where available and a pure LSTM Rust implementation elsewhere. Generally improving the word processor and looking for speedups. Adding a cross-platform spellchecker leveraging native where possible, too.

Play with it online: https://tritium.legal/preview

Download for free: https://tritium.legal/download

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Are you having lawyers getting of MS Word. Ive tried in the past with no success.

But this is really cool. Its definitely a problem they have.

I don't think Word will go away, no.

Some times you need to write a whitepaper, some marketing materials or something that a general product like Word is more suited for. Tritium is however aiming to replace Word as the transactional lawyer's go-to desktop application for the most common workflow.

Have you ever thought about a kind of a diff format for legal texts / documents / cases? And what are transactional lawyers btw?

Transactional lawyers are lawyers that primarily work on transactions, eg, mergers and acquisition, bond or share issuances, etc. It means they spend most of their time drafting, reviewing and negotiating deal documents rather than, eg, going to court.

I'm not the person you responded to but there are various diff programmes out there that lawyers use. I think they tend to be proprietary formats though. Lawyers pretty much all work in MS Word so any comparison software needs to work with that.

Thank you Noboru! So there are proprietary diff formats for text formats?

Thanks for checking it out, and yes!

If you type some text into one of the documents in the web preview, click the triangle and click the name of that document, you'll get a redline. That's the current industry-standard diff format. Redlines don't standardize around any kind of metadata format, though, so parsing them (unlike a diff) is non-trivial. There's an opportunity for improvement.

As mentioned elsewhere, transactional lawyers are corporate lawyers who work on deals (think drafting corporate documents, M&A or IPOs) as opposed to litigators who go to court and argue cases.

Thank you. So this red squigeee line is the industry standard?

I built a simple "gpt wrapper" focused on legal - in the process of fine-tuning an llm, I've noticed that Gemini / Google scraped the hell out of a certain legal forum (phbb board) in my country. After that I've started focusing on court legal cases entries (since there's a public website for that) and thinking a bit about what would a diff in a court case ideally look like, and it's an interesting problem.

Your product reminds me a bit of quantus.finance (also here on HN) even though the space is not really related, but it caters to a business area in an interesting way. What are you planning on doing next (on a high level)?

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