HardCopy Pro Plus 6.0

HardCopy Pro Plus™, Extractiva's legacy e-discovery processing solution designed for litigation support professionals, is a complete and robust professional-grade EDD solution, enabling rapid, enterprise-level electronic data discovery services. Easily make large collections of electronic documents and e-mails accessible to for searching and review. Create images, capture document-specific metadata and text, identify duplicates, endorse images, perform quality control tasks, and export to virtually any retrieval and indexing system, including Concordance, Summation, Ringtail and many others.

HardCopy Pro Plus™ easily installs on your own hardware, and can run standalone or in a networked environment. Distributed processing technology allows you to scale your operations to handle larger workloads and tight deadlines. Unrivalled in flexibility and features, our unique workspace environment allows you to tailor your production to the specific attributes of the job, unlike the linear process found in most other e-discovery tools.

HardCopy Pro Plus™ was the first e-discovery production tool on the market, and the product has grown to be incredibly feature-rich. For over a decade, Extractiva has developed new features based on client suggestions and feedback. Litigation support professionals throughout the world have based their electronic data discovery services on our integrated solution.

HardCopy Pro Plus Features

Flexible Workflow

Explore your data before processing it. For example, process only the file-types you need. Or only process files older or newer than a certain date. Or save a list of the documents that are responsive.
Flexible and customizable workflow – not a linear workflow that dictates the order/method of processing
Save settings per-project, per-case, per project type, and import settings to new projects
Workflow wizard to automate project tasks
Easy re-work of problematic documents

Project Management

Years of project management experience built into workflow and control documents
Job Checklist/Project Control Documents
Print reports detailing the data you’re working with.
Error reporting and logging at each stage of processing

File format support

Supports hundreds of file formats
True-to-the-original output using native applications (for example, use Microsoft Word to process .doc files) or use built-in viewers for hundreds of file types
Configure additional native applications and viewers for rare file types that no one else can process
File-Type Detection – detect files with renamed, incorrect, or missing extensions, so if someone renames a .doc file to .mp3 in an attempt to hide its contents, you’ll know.
Embedded files extraction
Archive extraction – ZIP, RAR, CAB, etc.

E-mail support

Analyze and filter e-mail archives before extracting
Supports Outlook (PST), Lotus Notes (NSF), Unix (mbox), Mozilla Thunderbird, and other e-mail formats
Supports mail, journals, contacts, tasks, appointments, notes, meeting items, and customized Outlook/Lotus Notes databases
Maintains relationships between e-mails and attachments

De-duplication

Customizable de-duplication criteria
De-duplicate across multiple projects
Keep document families together
Re-duplicate (re-populate collection with duplicates)

Metadata and Text Extraction Engines

Extract full text and metadata from e-mails and from most electronic files
OCR files without text
Import previously scanned documents and use the OCR engine

Imaging

Proprietary imaging driver with faster speed and more options than other imaging products
TIFF Creation (single-page and multi-page)
PDF Creation (fully searchable native PDF or TIFF-based PDF)
Manual imaging option for non-standard, complex, or large documents that would benefit from user interventionBates Stamping/Image Endorsements
Customizable bates stamping and endorsements on TIFFs and PDFs
Stamp bates numbers, privilege status, and other important information anywhere on the page, in any font/size

Smart Formatters for handling problematic file types

The industry’s most powerful Excel formatting options – process hidden data, resize and fit rows and columns, and over 35 additional options.
PowerPoint formatter
Word formatter
Access MDB formatter
Lotus Notes native formatting
Optional manual formatting

Exporting and Importing

Export to industry-standard retrieval systems such as Concordance, Summation, iCONECT, Ringtail, Introspect, FYI, Attenex, and more
Export to proprietary ASP systems such as KPMG’s Discovery Radar, Bowne’s JFS Litigator’s Notebook, Stratify, and more
Review and Production Cycle: Pre-process with HCPP, export to review system to review and flag responsive documents, then import the “hit list” back for further processing with HCPP.

Quality Control

Double-check images and exported data
Manually correct issues on the fly, or flag for later processing
Quality control on separate workstation(s) while the project is still being processed
Distributed real-time quality control

Printing/Blowback

Print (blowback) from TIFFs or from the original document
Slip sheets with optional different color pages from different paper trays

Distributed Processing

Allocate multiple workstations to a single project for faster turnaround
Re-allocate workstations from project to project as needed
Fault-tolerant redundancy – is one workstation goes offline, others pick up what was left off