Most new business documents are created electronically and few are ever printed. Email files, text files, Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, and PowerPoint presentations are the grist of the electronic discovery mill today. Warehouses of paper are no longer the norm.

Pre-converting electronic files to PDF or TIFF for review is expensive and time consuming. Most documents prove to be irrelevant and will never need to be produced. An ideal system would let your team review the files in a native format and convert only those for which conversion is required. Indeed, if you produce electronically through a repository, you may never need to convert the files.

Catalyst's Native File Review Platform

Catalyst CR provides one of the best native review platforms on the market and does not require pre-conversion before your initial review, nor special client software. Rather, when we index your native files, we convert all the standard files to nicely formatted HTML at no extra charge. The rest either can be displayed natively in your browser (text, jpg, png, html) or using Acrobat Reader. We also stream and display TIFF files via the browser with no need for special software.

CR's Special Excel Viewer allows you to stream and view large Excel files quickly

Our approach provides two benefits. First, your team can review files quickly in their original format. When they find an interesting document, they can open it in native mode or convert it to PDF on the fly for redaction or production. Second, you don't incur the expense or delay of pre-conversion.

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