This Hyderabad-based Subtl.ai helps you extract the exact info from a myriad of documents

• ByStartupStory     |    December 28, 2021

Having to flip through a 20,000-page document to find just the relevant information is not only taxing but a sheer waste of time. One might even try the good old ‘Ctrl F’, but what if you are looking for something related to ‘assets’ in the document, which instead uses the term ‘properties’?

This is where Hyderabad-based startup Subtl.ai, which is among one of the most promising startups. One can ask a simple question in the most “layman language”, and the software will seamlessly process a large page file document with many thousands of pages to fish out the relevant information in a few seconds.

 The one-year-old startup, seeded at International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIIT-H), is the brainchild of 23-year-old engineer Vishnu Ramesh and Professor Manish Shrivastava. It was during Vishnu’s research internship under Professor Shrivastava at IIIT-H, when the duo decided to use their synergies to devise a technology to fill in the gap.  

“The question we asked ourselves was—why does anyone have to open a thousand-page document to find the information they need. Time is money in today’s world and the pool of information is infinite,” says Vishnu, alumnus of Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani, Hyderabad campus. 

By 2019, the founding duo had managed to curate a prototype and spent another year building on top of it before formally launching their startup in January 2020. During their prototype phase, the State bank of India (SBI), which holds an “affinity” with IIIT-H, was looking to innovate and find a smarter way to streamline their processes. The startup grabbed the opportunity and partnered with the State Bank Institute of Innovation & Technology (SBIIT) to present their innovation and explore the technology.

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