Once the documents have been reviewed and searches are performed to determine potentially relevant documents you will be ready to publish to tiff or PDF those documents that might be important to your case, and have them linked to the corresponding records in the database.

It is our experience that somewhere between 3 -10% of those documents in your already culled database are even potentially relevant. We firmly believe that only these documents need be published. By approaching the task this way you can take one of the more expensive components of your electronic data production and turn it into the least expensive.

Once these documents are identified, they can be converted to TIFF or PDF images with Bates Numbers burned into them. The full text and metadata has already been extracted through the review process and added to fielded databases giving you full search capability.

By converting these electronic files directly to images you eliminate the need to print, bates label, copy, scan, OCR, objectively code and keyword code the documents that began their life as electronic data and are already on a computer, or computer media. As mentioned in the discussion of the review process, Meta data from electronic documents such as email can be extracted and populated into fields which may be searched using full text to find the emails and their attachments. Some of the searchable fields include: From, To, Cc, Bcc, Date, Message ID, Received, Keywords, Subject, References to other emails and many more fields.
[For a full explanation of these fields please refer to our eDoc-IQ review section.]

Use these documents with your favorite litigation support software
Once the electronic documents have been converted to TIFF or PDF images and you have the fielded data, it is possible to use these elements in your favorite litigation support database. They become part of your case. You can simultaneously search across transcripts, the database and the full text of the documents. What is more, there’s no need for busy litigation professionals to learn additional programs. What a treat…and at a fraction of the cost of traditional EDD processing or handling paper!