Document Imaging & Scanning
Document Scanning in Seattle
Cascade offers document imaging and scanning for litigation, for merger and acquisition due diligence review, and for records retention. Every project is different, so we work with each client to build the specification before production starts.
Cascade can photocopy, scan, image, Bates label and OCR paper documents in a single pass, which lowers cost and improves quality. Parties can then share documents electronically or on physical media.
Cascade can convert rooms of paper and thousands of banker's boxes into searchable electronic files, which reduces internal and off-site storage costs and helps ensure records are secured and archived.
Scan, label and OCR in a single pass
Cascade can photocopy, scan, image, Bates label and OCR the same documents in one pass through the shop. Handling paper once instead of four times is where both the cost saving and the quality gain come from: every extra handling is another chance for a page to be mis-fed, mis-ordered or missed.
The output is a searchable electronic set that parties can share by secure transfer or on physical media, with images, extracted text and an index that match each other.
Load files and review platforms
A scan is only useful if it loads. Cascade delivers images with the load file and index structure a review database expects, and can upload data files into commonly used document management software rather than handing over a folder of TIFFs and leaving the import to your staff.
Cascade can also provide project management for bibliographic or subjective coding of document images, so the fields your reviewers search on are populated before review starts.
Tell us which platform the set is going into and what the load file has to look like, and we will confirm the delivery format before production starts rather than after.
Records retention and back-file scanning
Beyond litigation, Cascade converts rooms of paper and thousands of banker’s boxes into searchable electronic files. The result behaves like a virtual filing cabinet: staff stop losing hours looking for misfiled documents, and the organisation stops paying to store and re-store paper.
It is also a continuity measure. Records that exist only as a single paper copy in one building are records that a flood, a fire or a move can end. Scanned and archived, they are recoverable.
Cascade also provides evidence preservation consultation for organisations deciding what to scan, what to keep and in what form.
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Legal Copying & Duplication
High-speed paper evidence duplication, Bates labeling, binding and exhibit work for Seattle litigators.
eDiscovery & Electronic Evidence
Evidence-quality preservation, drive imaging and processing of electronic documents into reviewable form.
Data Processing
OCR, file conversion and load file preparation that turn a mixed collection into a clean, searchable production set.
Trial & Evidence Support
Trial notebooks, exhibits, audio/video duplication and on-site work for evidence that cannot leave the room.
Rush & After-Hours Service
Cascade is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, for overnight production and same-day deadlines.
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