DATAssimilate Systems Inc., a provider of optical character resolution, imaging, coding and document processing software for legal professionals, unveiled a major upgrade to the company’s PowerSearch application at the International Legal Technology Association’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C., which ran from August 26 to 30. PowerSearch is designed to search and cull content acquired from multiple sources to form a collection.
The new version 5 includes a processing tab to manually include and exclude files by extension and size, as well as the ability to import the most current National Software Reference Library Reference Data Set to deNIST or remove common computer files, such as binary and executable files, from a proposed collection. The NSRL RDS contains metadata on computer files which can be used to uniquely identify the files and their origin using an MD5 hash. The new PowerSearch version also lets you add custom MD5 values to remove known files from a collection.The processing tab for PowerSearch includes a window to deNIST a collection and exclude known files by extension and size.
