🌍 Tourlingo - Multilingual Travel Assistant

Tourlingo is a Flask-based web application that helps travelers by providing real-time translation, location extraction, and travel recommendations across multiple Indian languages.

Features

• Multilingual Translation: Translate English text to Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, and Telugu using AI4Bharat's IndicTrans2 model
• Location Recognition: Automatically extract locations, attractions, and organizations from text using spaCy NER
• Smart Recommendations: Get place suggestions powered by Google Maps API
• Modern UI: Clean, responsive interface with smooth animations
• Real-time Processing: Fast translation and entity extraction

Tech Stack

• Backend: Flask 3.0.0, Python 3.11
• ML Models:
  • IndicTrans2 (AI4Bharat) for translation
  • spaCy en_core_web_md for Named Entity Recognition
  • PyTorch for model inference
• APIs: Google Maps Places API
• Frontend: Vanilla JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3
• OCR: Tesseract (for future image text extraction)

Project Structure

tourlingo/
├── app/
│ ├── main.py
│ ├── init.py
│ ├── templates/
│ │ └── index.html
│ ├── static/
│ └── utils/
│ ├── init.py
│ ├── translator.py
│ ├── ner_extractor.py
│ └── maps_helper.py
├── data/
├── venv/
├── .env
├── requirements.txt
└── README.md