Litigation Support Technical Standards
by Mark Lieb



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    3.04.02 OCR Folder

    This folder contains multi-page ASCII text files named for the image key or the first page of the document.

     

    Different document review systems load OCR in different fashions. As such, this document includes organization and formatting considerations valid for every format. To learn the actual technical syntax, please refer to the software section for examples.  Regardless of software title, there are attributes common to each software, such as filenames and organization.

     

    While different OCR programs produce different types of output, the firm requires the vendor’s product to match the naming conventions and organizational schemas outlined here.

     

    The OCR filename must match the complete image key. As most programs load the OCR by matching the image key to the text file, all OCR for the entire document should reside in the single image key text file.

     

     

    IMAGE KEY

    BEGBATES

    ENDBATES

    OCR FILENAME

    CONTAINS

    A001

    A001

    A005

    A001.TXT

    OCR for A001…A005

    A006

    A006

    A006

    A006.TXT

    OCR for A006

    A007

    A007

    A070

    A007.TXT

    OCR for A007…A070

    All load files and files for loading, regardless of application, should reflect this rule.

    Note: The Bates names should be 7 numbers wide. They are limited here due to brevity.


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    About Litigation Support Technical Standards

    This document was initially designed to eliminate any discrepancy between firm technical needs and how the vendor created the technical aspect of their products. Litigation Support spends needless hours changing the vendor delivery. The firm pays for product that litigation support will have to modify. Today, the document covers as many technical requirements as possible for as many types of discovery and software as possible.

    To get a good idea of the reason for these explicit directions, please visit the final section of this document entitled, “Things not to do”. All of these examples are from real life. All of these examples caused headaches, delaying reviews, productions and more.

    I hope that this document is helpful to you.

























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