AI OCR for Legal Documents
Scanned court filings, faxed medical records, handwritten physician notes: legal teams deal with formats that defeat traditional OCR. Dodonai's AI extracts accurate, searchable text from even the most challenging documents.
Why Legal Teams Need AI OCR
Legal work runs on documents, and a significant portion arrive in formats that aren't natively searchable. Medical records faxed from provider offices, court filings scanned at the clerk's office, contracts photocopied during discovery, and handwritten notes from treating physicians. This is where OCR for legal documents becomes essential. When documents aren't searchable, your team can't find key facts, can't run searches across a case file, and can't feed records into summarization or e-discovery tools.
Traditional OCR was designed for clean, typed documents. It struggles with what legal professionals encounter daily: low-resolution scans, mixed handwriting and printed text, faded faxes, medical records with stamps overlaying text. The result is garbled output that requires extensive manual correction, sometimes taking as long as retyping from scratch.
Dodonai's AI-powered legal OCR handles the document types legal teams actually work with. It uses language models to understand context, not just recognize characters, which means it accurately interprets handwritten physician notes, reads text on degraded scans, and maintains complex document layouts. Extracted text integrates directly with Dodonai's medical record summarization and e-discovery workflows, so you go from scanned PDF to searchable, summarized document without switching tools.
AI OCR Capabilities for Legal Documents
Handwriting Recognition for Medical and Legal Notes
Physician notes, investigator field notes, and handwritten annotations all challenge traditional OCR. Dodonai's AI uses language context to interpret and transcribe handwritten content correctly, where traditional OCR produces garbled output.
Scanned Court Filings and Discovery Documents
Low-resolution image PDFs from clerk's offices and scanned discovery productions? Dodonai extracts clean, accurate text regardless of scan quality, making them fully searchable.
Medical Records from Any Provider Format
Faxed clinic notes, scanned hospital records, photocopied lab reports, handwritten prescription logs. The OCR processes all of these and feeds extracted text directly into the medical chronology engine.
Batch Processing for Large Document Sets
Upload hundreds or thousands of scanned pages at once. Dodonai converts entire case files into searchable text in bulk, with no page-by-page intervention.
Secure Processing for Privileged and Protected Documents
Scanned documents contain the same sensitive content as their digital originals. HIPAA compliant, SOC 2 certified, AES-256 encrypted. Signed BAAs on every account. No training on your files.
AI OCR vs. Traditional OCR vs. Manual Transcription
| Capability | Dodonai AI OCR | Traditional OCR | Manual Transcription |
|---|---|---|---|
| Handwritten text accuracy | High | Poor | High |
| Low-quality scan handling | High accuracy | Frequent errors | Readable by human |
| Medical terminology recognition | Context-aware | Character-by-character | Depends on reviewer |
| Processing speed (500 pages) | Minutes | Minutes | Days |
| Manual correction required | Minimal | Extensive | None |
| Cost per page | Included free | $0.05-$0.15 | $1-$5 |
| Maintains document structure | Often lost | ||
| Integrates with summarization | |||
| HIPAA-compliant processing | Varies | Varies | |
| Scales to thousands of pages |
How It Works
Upload Scanned Documents
Upload scanned PDFs, image files, or mixed document sets. The system accepts files of any size and auto-detects which pages need OCR. No preprocessing or image cleanup required.
AI Extracts and Structures the Text
Dodonai's AI OCR engine processes each page, interpreting printed and handwritten text using contextual language understanding. Document structure (headings, paragraphs, tables, lists) is preserved rather than flattened.
Search, Summarize, or Export
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Frequently Asked Questions
Traditional OCR recognizes characters by shape, which fails on degraded scans, handwriting, and complex layouts. Dodonai's AI OCR uses language models to understand context. It recognizes that a string in a medical record is likely a diagnosis or medication, which closes the accuracy gap on the document types legal teams actually encounter.
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Make Every Legal Document Searchable
Upload scanned PDFs or handwritten notes and get accurate, searchable text in minutes. No credit card, no commitment.