Notices
What Dueproof pulls out of a notice, and the rules behind each item. Everything is rule-based and explainable: for any finding you can point to the words that caused it.
About the document
| Field | How it is found |
|---|---|
| Type | Keywords weighted by where they appear — the masthead and the file name count more than the body. Types and keywords come from the profile. |
| Reference | A label from the profile's REFERENCE_LABELS ("Reference No", "DIN", "Notice No", "ARN", …) followed by an identifier, near the top of page one. |
| Issued by | A name from the profile's AUTHORITIES list anywhere in the text; failing that, an "Office of the …" heading or a top line naming an office. |
| Amount demanded | The largest ₹ / Rs. / INR amount in a line that talks about paying (demand, payable, tax, penalty, interest, outstanding…). Lakh and crore are converted. An invoice's line items are not a demand. |
| Provisions | "Section 143(2)", "u/s 148A(b)", "Rule 86A", "Regulation 30", "Article 226", normalised. |
| Date | The date labelled as such ("Date:", "Dated"), else the first date in the opening text. |
| Received | The day the document arrived in Dueproof, or the date you set. |
Obligations
A sentence is an obligation because it directs someone — "you are hereby
directed to", "shall", "must", "furnish", "pay the", "appear before" and the
rest of the profile's OBLIGATION_CUES. A bare date is not enough: issue dates
and tax periods carry dates too.
A date becomes the due date only beside a deadline marker ("on or before", "within", "not later than", "by", "due date"…). Relative deadlines are resolved:
- "within 30 days of receipt", "from the date of service" — counted from the received date. These are marked N days from receipt, and move if you correct the received date. The notice cannot know when it reached you, so Dueproof never guesses this from the issue date.
- "within 15 days" with no mention of receipt — counted from the document's own date.
A hearing — "a personal hearing is fixed on 18 November 2026" — is an obligation with a due date even without a deadline marker, and is tagged hearing.
Each obligation also carries the provision its sentence cites, a severity (high when the sentence speaks of penalty, prosecution, show cause, attachment, …) and its desks.
Desks
A finding goes to every desk whose keywords it mentions, up to three. In the default profile, a notice's type also decides its main desk: every finding in a GST notice goes to GST & Indirect Tax first. Anything still unrouted goes to the profile's default desk. You can move a finding to another desk; see Workflow.
What it does not do
- It does not read handwriting.
- It does not understand a notice the way a person does. It will miss a duty
phrased in a way the profile's vocabulary does not cover, and it can mistake
an informative sentence for a duty. Not a duty in the app records the
mistake;
dueproof evalmeasures how often it happens on your documents. - It does not file replies or pay anything. It proposes; a person decides.