80 Pages in Seconds: A Real Transcript Walkthrough

When a deposition transcript lands in your inbox, you already know what’s ahead: hours of scrolling, annotating, and cross-checking citations. Eighty pages can feel endless when every statement could shape causation, damages, or witness credibility.

For most litigation teams, reviewing one transcript takes three to four hours: a paralegal reads line by line, an associate verifies citations, and both race against filing deadlines.

It’s essential work, but also the most repetitive, time-consuming part of case preparation.

So we put it to the test: the same 80-page deposition, summarized manually versus summarized by Dodon.ai’s automated deposition summary software.

Here’s what we found.

Manual Review: The Baseline

Time Spent: 3 hours 47 minutes
Team: 1 paralegal + 1 associate (for QA)
Output: 8-page summary with citations

Typical pain points:

• Switching constantly between PDF viewers and Word documents
  
• Manually inserting and verifying every page-line citation
  
• Missing key details on the first pass, forcing a second review
  
• Total cost: ≈ $250 in billable time per transcript
  

The result? Accurate, yes: but slow, draining, and impossible to scale.

Dodon.ai Review: 80 Pages in Seconds

With Dodon.ai, the same transcript was uploaded as-is - no pre-formatting or document splitting required.

Watch the Live Demo

This demo shows the actual 80-page deposition transcript processed in real time.

In just a few minutes, Dodon.ai:

• Read text from PDF and scanned pages out of the box
  
• Surfaced every date, speaker, and key event
  
• Generated a clean summary with page-line citations
• Allow for download in various formats
  

Total time: Seconds to minutes for processing + 5 minutes for attorney review
Output: Professional, citation-based deposition summary
Cost: Starting at $30/month for up to 200 pages

See It in Action

Based on Dodon.ai's official demo, you can see these steps on the platform:

1. Upload the 80-page deposition transcript (accepts PDF, TXT or DOC) and hit the Summarize button.

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2. Dodon.ai processes and presents an AI-generated summary with citations that is ready to download in various formats (DOC, PDF, TXT)

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Additional Features

• Select format type and enter key topics
• View the Page-Line Summary with Citations, Summary, Topics

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Why Accuracy Still Matters

Speed alone doesn’t win cases. Deposition summaries are for litigation preparation and discovery, not courtroom filings.

Every summary must trace back to the original record to hold up under scrutiny.

That’s why Dodon.ai includes page-line citations and direct source references in every output, giving your team transparency and auditability by default.

The Takeaway

Manual review ensures accuracy, but it kills momentum.

Dodon.ai delivers the same professional standard in minutes instead of hours, freeing legal teams to spend more time on strategy and client work.

From Hours to Seconds Without Losing the Facts That Matter

Every deposition summary should make the record clearer, not longer. The challenge has always been balancing speed and accuracy, but with automated legal summaries, that balance has shifted.

Dodon.ai doesn’t replace professional judgment but it accelerates it.The software surfaces citations, organizes testimony, and flags providers automatically, so attorneys can focus on what actually wins cases: analysis, not transcription.

If your team still spends hours summarizing depositions manually, it’s time to see what’s possible.

Upload your next transcript and see it summarized in seconds. Try Dodon.ai Deposition Summary Software today.