Is Electronic Data recovery still alive? see

We are using Law Prediscovery for our scanning and very familiar with all its features. But can anyone recommend any good training courses or material to keep updated with the scanning / imaging industry... we are seeing more complex scanning projects from our clients.?

In my opinion the Imaging/Scanning services have become very static in
the legal industry, meaning that a majority of training and software
development has been devoted to ESI related services. In addition from
my experience most cases involving litigation scanning seem to be very
straight forward, however if you are providing scanning services outside
of the legal arena as most in our space are then you will most likely
have unique requirements. This is typically due to the types of exports
requested or Coded/field data.

With LAW you can increase your functionality by utilizing scripts and in
some cases SQL Commands. We have had many scan cases that have been to
load into a Document Management System (typically PDF export with
Delimited Text for field data).

In closing I believe that this field (imaging/Scanning) has become one
more of hands on experience rather then any formal training. One
suggestion is if you are not currently a LAW yahoo group member is to
sign up for that group as well. Since the community has been very
helpful in providing feedback based on their past experiences. If in
fact you do receive a response for formal Imaging/Scanning training well
beyond your basic scanning techniques I would be interested in that
information as well.


I'm not sure if this would help, but the only training I'm aware of is
what's offered by LN/LAW. It’s only offered in Chicago, due to the scanning
hardware required for the training session.

http://law.lexisnexis.com/literature/LAW_IMG.pdf

First Scanning and OCR is still around. Where have you been? I see frms all over the country still send out scanning and OCR jobs. Was your response dated in the year 2014?



Not all firms can afford EDD processing, some firms do not even have a database management solution. I would say the majority of service providers who offer scanning services still see at least 25% of their business from scanning.



In terms of EDD what you are saying is this will eliminate EDD processing from the vendor space and again I do not see that. True there may be vendors developing solutions for in-house council but I am highly skeptical of hours instead of weeks. Skeptical to the point of chuckling. Do not forget about the human element here. there are way too many variables involved for it to be hours turnaround. Such as training, FRCP rules, firms actually understanding EDD fully, EDD caselaw, forensics, metadata, searching whether it is keyword or some element of concept. I could go on and on here.

I support John here. I've been working on cases this year that involve
productions from 1999-2000 timeframe. As a trial tech, one who works
with big firms nationwide, I still have yet to see an exhibit set in
trial that was fostered/organized by EDD. Progress is ticking along, but
still at a slow pace. Scanning/Imaging is still ruling quite a bit in
terms of cases that I see going to trial currently.

In intellectual property matters, for example, scanning of manuals, licenses, etc, is still very VERY common.