Ad Litem Consulting, Inc.

Ad Litem Consulting, Inc.
Technical Standards
   Includes:
     - Load Files
     - Cost Codes
     - Quotes
     - For Vendors
     - For Firms

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Intro
Acknowledgements
License
Preface
1.00 Introduction
1.01 For Vendors
1.02 For Firms
1.03 How to Use This Document
2.00 Business Standards
2.01 Outgoing Media Kit
2.02 Cost Codes for Litigation Support
2.03 Request for Quotes ("RFQs")
2.04 Quotes
2.05 Weekly Updates
2.06 Color Blindness
2.07 Quality Control
2.08 Required Test Load
3.00 Technical Standards
3.01 Media Labels
3.02 File, Folder and Volume Naming
3.03 CD Content and Organization
3.04 Organization of Sub-Folders
3.05 Bates Schemes
3.06 Data Files
3.07 Database Conventions
3.08 Native Files
3.09 Project Specifications Document
3.10 Bibliographical Coding Manual
3.11 Image Format
3.12 OCR
3.13 Slip-Sheets or Unitization Rules
3.14 Video
3.15 Synchronization
3.16 Transcripts
3.17 Delivery Media
4.00 Software Specific Requirements
4.01 Casesoft Suite
4.02 IPRO
4.03 Dataflight's Concordance and Opticon
4.04 Image Capture Engineering
4.05 Summation
4.06 iCONECT
4.07 inData TrialDirector
4.nn Additional Titles to Follow
5.00 Examples of What Not To Do
5.01 Media Labels
5.02 File / Folder / Volume Name Conventions
5.03 Database
5.04 Media Content
5.05 Load Files
5.06 OCR
5.07 Opticon Load Files
5.08 Image Format
5.09 Transcripts
5.10 General Errors / Issues
5.11 Real Experiences

3.04.02 OCR Folder - Technical Standards


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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