Litigation Hold

Legal hold is a communication or notice requiring a company to preserve all data that may relate to a legal action involving the company. This requirement ensures that the data in question will be available for the discovery process prior to litigation.   Legal holds can encompass business procedures affecting active data, including, but not limited to, backup tape recycling.

Also known as also a hold, preservation order, suspension order, freeze notice, hold order, or hold notice.

OCR and Extracted Text

OCR
OCR stands for Optical Character Recognition. It is the electronic identification and digital encoding of printed or handwritten characters by means of an optical scanner and specialized software.

Extracted Text
Text that already exists in the native files such as MS Word, MS Excel, HTML files and PDFs.

e-Discovery

e-Discovery is how electronic data is requested, located, acquired, and then searched in the course of civil or criminal litigation. e-Discovery covers a broad range of data including audio files, photographs, animation, software, email, and online documents.