Compound Document Support

Improve your eDiscovery efficiency by reviewing all embedded documents in Microsoft Office and Adobe PDF compound documents.

The need to accurately and completely manage compound documents is a major eDiscovery challenge. The Stratify Legal Discovery™ 8.0 service supports the following types of compound documents:

Microsoft Office documents that embed one or more files into each other (such as an embedded Microsoft Excel spreadsheet in a Microsoft Word document).

Adobe PDF documents that contain multiple attachments in a single PDF.

The Stratify Legal Discovery 8.0 service completely restores, indexes, and manages all of these embedded file types so attorneys can search for and review them separately, tag them for privilege, or redact them as appropriate.

New proprietary technology safely and recursively restores all files embedded in compound documents including Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, and Adobe PDF. For example, Adobe PDF files can be used to package folders in Outlook and contain hundreds of emails and attachments; or Microsoft Office documents that contain a ZIP file with an embedded PST which in turn contains emails and attachments can present huge challenges for discovery. New “document units” automatically track and maintain the relationship between container files and their embedded objects, while enabling the application to index each document separately so attorneys can search and find documents regardless of how they are stored.