Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and eDiscovery aren’t necessarily all that new, but it’s becoming increasingly important to implement due to the continuing transition into a digital age. Businesses, especially large corporations, have a massive amount of electronically stored information (ESI) that they would be wise to retain for future possible legal ramifications, so the stakes are high.

Continuing off our last white paper about end-to-end eDiscovery with LEADTOOLS Document Imaging, this post will go over a .NET Core console application that performs OCR on each PDF from a given directory while searching for a given word in those PDFs. This application is optimized to handle both raster images and documents, so feel free to change the code around to search more than PDFs. If the word the user submits is found within a file in the directory, the file name containing the searched word will be logged out to the console.

Last month we published a white paper on eDiscovery, which gave a brief overview on the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM). Today, we want to dive into more details about the EDRM and how it pertains to imaging and LEADTOOLS in particular.