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Back when most discovery was paper based, the usefulness of the documents was understandably limited. Documents were paper and they all required conversion to image to be viewed electronically, optical character recognition (OCR) to capture their text (though not 100% accurately) and coding (i.e., data entry) to capture key data elements (e.g., author, recipient, subject, document date, document type, names mentioned, etc.). It was a problem, but it was a consistent problem – all documents needed the same treatment to make them searchable and usable electronically. Though electronic files are already electronic, that doesn’t mean that they’re ready for review as is. They don’t just represent one problem, they can represent a whole collection of problems.
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