This AI tool digitizes your old, handwritten land records
A Kolkata startup, Vixplor Analytics, has created DocXplor, an AI tool that reads and digitizes old, faded handwritten land records.
By using smart character recognition, it turns damaged registers into searchable digital files.
This could assist national digitization efforts such as the Digital India Land Records Modernization Program (DILRMP), which has already digitized most rural records but still struggles with really old paperwork.
Why is this important?
Even though the land records modernisation effort began in the late 2000s with NLRMP and was later revamped as DILRMP, those stubborn legacy files make it tough to link land data with Aadhaar and other digital systems.
DocXplor is helping bridge that last-mile gap by making even the hardest-to-read documents digital and accessible.
What's next?
West Bengal is already using DocXplor to trace property histories and speed up ownership checks.
That could help reduce paperwork and disputes, and may, if integrated with formal land-record systems, support improved access to loans or subsidies — by converting records into structured, searchable digital data that can be integrated into online land-record systems.
If rolled out widely, this tech could make buying or selling land way smoother for everyone.