AUGUR

Offline-first forensic translation and transcription tool. For law enforcement and intelligence analysts.

AUGUR surfaces foreign-language content inside digital evidence — text, audio, video, image, PDF, subtitle — and translates it into the examiner's working language. No evidence ever leaves your machine.

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What it does

• Detects the language of evidence in 16+ (whichlang) or 176 (fastText) languages.
• Transcribes audio / video with Whisper (Metal-accelerated on Apple Silicon), with per-segment timestamps + optional speaker diarization.
• Translates with NLLB-200-distilled-600M (200 languages), with a faster ctranslate2 backend when available.
• OCRs images with Tesseract; extracts PDF text layers; parses SRT/VTT subtitles; geolocates IPs against MaxMind GeoLite2; converts forensic timestamps (Unix / Apple / Windows / WebKit / HFS+).
• Scans translated + original content with YARA rules.
• Bundles results into evidence packages with SHA-256 manifests, agency-branded HTML reports, and a chain-of-custody header.

Three example commands

# Translate a single audio file
augur translate --input recording.mp3 --target en

# Walk an evidence directory and emit an HTML report
augur batch --input /evidence --target en \
    --format html --output report.html --threads 4

# Bundle the run into a shareable evidence package
augur package --input /evidence --output case-001.zip

Install

git clone <augur repo> augur && cd augur
cargo build --release
sudo install target/release/augur /usr/local/bin/augur
augur self-test --full   # downloads models on first use

For air-gapped workstations: see docs/AIRGAP_INSTALL.md.

Forensic discipline

Every translation AUGUR produces is labeled machine-generated. The advisory fires on every output surface — console, batch JSON / CSV / HTML, evidence manifest, Strata plugin artifact — and is not suppressible by any flag.

For legal proceedings, verify all translations with a certified human translator.

Documentation

• docs/USER_MANUAL.md — full feature reference for examiners.
• docs/QUICK_REFERENCE.md — one-page command cheat sheet.
• docs/DEPLOYMENT.md — workstation setup + casework workflow.
• docs/AIRGAP_INSTALL.md — offline install for classified environments.
• docs/STRATA_INTEGRATION.md — building AUGUR as a Strata plugin.
• docs/LANGUAGE_LIMITATIONS.md — known classifier ambiguities (Pashto/Persian, Hindi/Urdu, short-text reliability) and how AUGUR surfaces them.
• CLAUDE.md — engineering invariants + sprint decisions for developers.

License

Proprietary — Wolfmark Systems.