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AI and Data

What Is OCR?

Technology that converts scanned images and PDFs into searchable, selectable text.

Legal Tech GlossaryBy The Circle Desk

Why It Matters

Many contracts, court records and productions still arrive as scans. Without good OCR, search, AI review and clause extraction miss whatever is in those files, so OCR quality is worth checking when you migrate old documents.

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Related Terms

eDiscovery
Collecting, reviewing and producing electronically stored information, such as email, chat and documents, in litigation, investigations and regulatory requests.
Clause extraction
Using AI to find specific clauses and data points in contracts, such as governing law, renewal dates and liability caps, and turn them into structured fields.

General information, not legal advice. Part of the Legal Tech Glossary, 173 terms in plain English.