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Texas Court Orders Optical Character Recognition
A district court for Texas has ordered S.C. Johnson to perform optical character recognition (OCR) on scanned documents offered as evidence in a case brought by Proctor & Gamble. The court held that OCR would render the documents searchable, thereby streamlining the discovery process and making it harder to hide relevant information in difficult-to-search documents. S.C. Johnson originally sought cost shifting, claiming that Procter & Gamble should share the cost to OCR the scanned files – estimated at about $200,000. But the judge in the case noted that "OCR is a tool that greatly decreases the time and effort counsel must invest in searching and examining documents" and that the cost is neither unreasonable nor burdensome.ARMA International IMN, March
