Process phase

After creating the collection of files, use the Process phase to process and store the files to enable comprehensive search using electronic discovery technology. While you move the collection through this phase, Epiq Discovery performs the processing work.

For projects created in Epiq Discovery release 4.6 or later, when processing an archived file, after extracting the top-level archive, the system creates a record for it and then deletes or moves its native file to DataHub based on the project settings. By default, the system moves the top‑level archive to DataHub. You can view the top‑level archive record in Inspect. The system populates metadata fields for this record. In DataHub, the system saves top‑level archives in a folder labeled

<collection job name>-<processing job Id> under Incoming> Processed.

During Processing, Epiq Discovery automatically OCRs specific types of documents. The file types that can be automatically OCR'd include: JPG, TIF, TIFF, PDF, and Bitmap files. As an administrator, you can enable or disable whether Epiq Discovery performs Automatic OCR. For more information about this setting, refer to Modify project settings. Automatic OCR is enabled by default.

During processing, Epiq Discovery automatically detects languages in the documents that contain at least 250 characters and then populates the Language Primary and Language Secondary fields.

• For more information about the Language Primary and Language Secondary fields, refer to Search field reference.

• For more information about the supported file formats that the system can process, refer to Supported file types.

• To configure the top-level archive file processing setting, refer to Configure top-level archive file processing setting.

Some limitations apply to this feature. For more information, refer to Known limitations.