Thursday, April 9, 2009

Electronic Document Processing & Scanning

Electronic document processing has been estimated that nearly 75 percent of any office document collection is electronic and in some enterprises the percentage is undoubtedly higher. Electronic documents pose special problems for the legal professional due largely to the networked environment in which they are created. They are duplicated more rapidly and more extensively and they are distributed more widely than their paper counterparts. At present, this end-user replication and distribution of a single document is repeated over and over again in the document management process, resulting in a high level of duplicative effort and single documents indexed and coded multiple times.

Digital Litigation has developed ways to process e-mail and attachments and de dupe these and other electronic documents through an automated process that retains only a single copy of each document version while retaining a list of custodians in whose collection a copy was found. This process alone removes a significant number of documents and makes further processing easier and more cost-effective. We also provide secure web-based services that allow you to store, search, retrieve code, remove and add electronic documents online.

Using existing manual methods, paper is difficult and expensive to collect, copy, move and manage. In a litigation setting, individual office and central file searches are intrusive and disrupt a company's operations. The sheer bulk of the collection makes management expensive and difficult. Firms are typically required to hire temps or maintain a staff whose sole responsibility lies in tracking and moving boxes of documents. Indexing, coding and identifying important documents requires still more floor space and largely remains as labor intensive today as it has always been.

Scanning allows you to digitize your documents and store them electronically, in a single location. Text documents can be made searchable through the Optical Character Recognition process. The documents can then be viewed and processed from virtually any PC, eliminating the need to store and move boxes and freeing up wasted office space and manpower. These digital images can also be stored on a secure website where authorized users can access them from any Internet access point in the world.

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