OCR & Objective Coding

Document Coding

Coding (also known as “indexing”) is the extraction and logging of key information relating to a specific document.

Finding critical information in a large population of documents can be difficult.  Lighthouse Document Technologies' approach is to code the relevant information from each document.  This information can be pulled automatically from native electronic files (see Metadata) or compiled manually from paper documents or static images such as tiffs or pdfs.  

If manual coding is needed, we assign coders to review each document and extract information such as Author, Recipient, Copyee, Date, Document Type, Document Title, Beginning bates number, Ending Bates number, and so forth. 
Every field of every document is verified for quality control.  In addition to coding, documents are often OCR'd to enable the full text searching of a document. 

Once the coding is complete, we export the information to a file format specific to your case management application (i.e., Summation, Concordance, JFS Litigators Notebook, Hummingbird, etc.), where it can be loaded and then used to form searches. 

Lighthouse works closely with our clients to design every coding project to match their needs.