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LEGAL teams worldwide often face the prospect of having to sort through mounds of paper documents, looking for particular relevant pieces of information. The need comes up across the board in legal practice: during the process of discovery, in performing due diligence in advance of mergers or acquisitions, in investigatory proceedings and in the redaction of privileged information prior to the release of documents.
Traditionally, scouring these documents has been a long and exhaustive manual process, often requiring engaging paralegals on an hourly basis, diverting crucial internal resources or outsourcing the task to a third party. Great strides have been made in similar searches of electronic original documents, as the data is by nature simple to index by competent e-discovery or enterprise search systems.However,even these advances hit the wall when presented with images of paper documents, particularly those that do not follow a predetermined, standardized format or contain handwritten information.
In response to these needs, A2iA has made its A2iA DocumentReader™ software available to legal professionals and the third-parties which service them. By utilizing advanced intelligent word recognition (IWR) and character recognition technology,combined with robust document identification/ classification,data extraction and search capabilities,A2iA DocumentReader is successfully navigating the last mile in legal searches. Able to handle structured, semi-structured and even unstructured, handwritten documents, A2iA represents a much more efficient and cost-effective way for legal teams to identify, classify and search through paper documents, evidence and other materials.
The following paper presents an overview of A2iA DocumentReader and how it can address the specific challenges facing law firms and legal departments.
EVERY day, legal professionals worldwide are faced with the onerous task of sorting through masses of documents of every type. The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FCRP) clearly state that all pertinent documents – no matter their form – are subject to the same identification, preservation, disclosure and production requirements. Whether machine-printed or handwritten, standardized forms or free-form blocks of text, any and all relevant documents are required by the FRCP to be produced for inspection or other purposes, without exemption.
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