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Legal Document Scanning Services

From Bundles, Ring Binders, Lever Arch Files, Scanning and Processing Services

Document scanning services are widely offered by many organisations and are readily available with other companies. But it is not what we are really pushing with Pearl Scan Legal, it is the price, the technology which has been developed to heavily reduce processing time and cost as well as our valuable knowledge & experience.

Over the years, by working with top law firms and experienced lawyers who are keen to learn new document management technologies and have dedicated & invested their valuable time with our technology developers and team of legal document scanning, coding and processing  operators, we have developed some fantastic tools, applications and work flow procedures which enable us and our clients to achieve the required scanning and processing services in the most cost effective, secure, confidential and most reliable and scalable way.

Our specialist legal document scanning services includes the following...

- Legal documents scanningdocument scanning

- Image processing, image enhancement for faint, poor quality photocopies, faxes, handwritten notes, etc.

- Like-For-Like Document Scanning Service

PSL is proud to offer our like-for-like document scanning service and solutions, which has rapidly developed with our clients for those documents which contain a mixture of colour and black & white contents, and where colour documents are required to be scanned as colour. Our like for like scanning technology eliminates the need for sorting and filtering the colour and B&W documents and automatically scans colour as colour and B&W as B&W which means the files are much smaller than scanning the entire file or bundle in colour format and image are actual representations of the originals

- Ultra Sonic Double Feed Detection Scanners to ensure 100% Input Vs put

scanning servicesWe are frequently asked this question by our clients:

"How do we ensure that all pages within a file have been scanned and during the scanning process, the scanner has not missed a page or double fed two pages together?"

The answer to is to ensure that each and every page has been scanned during the digitisation process, we utilise state of the art technology, and dedicated scanning equipment only equipped with ‘Ultra Sonic’ double feed detection technology which uses sound waves to detect multiple documents going through the scanner at the same time and stops the scanner at detection. So all your legal document scanning will be completely missed document and worry free.

bate stampingBate Stamping (Footer & Numbering)

Bate Stamping is widely used on legal documents and bundles to keep track and log of the documents, normally text and page number strings are printed on the bottom of each page.

Document Coding, Indexing and Metadata Extraction

PSL Document Coding is coded to each and every client's specific coding requirements, our extensive knowledge and understanding of law terminology and experience working with the legal documents ensure accurate coding and cost efficiency.

Our coding services can be classified as below;document coding

Objective Coding

General Document Coding (e.g. capturing, document title, reference number, type of document, author, recipient, date, etc).

Subjective Coding
In addition to the above, keywords and certain information can be coded or captured

Full Text Capture
Depending on the type of documents and contents, manual data coding or automated data capture for the whole text.

Document Bookmarking document bookmarking

Document Bookmarking within a PDF document or cross PDFs can reduce browsing and search time. Bookmarking is essentially creating an index with a PDF document and linking to the relevant page, section, or a paragraph or image within a PDF or another PDF document.

Document Hyperlinking

Hyperlinking can be done within the most document formats including TIFF, PDF, WORD etc and is predominantly used for cross referencing within legal documents.

Document OCR

document ocrOCR (Optical Character Recognition) is the process of reading text from within an image and extract or output to a required format, such as Text Searchable PDF, Word, Excel, etc. Our document scanning includes the OCR processing by default and during the scanning process; we optimise and enhance the quality of the foreground and background of the image to make the image as clear and readable as possible so during the OCR processing, the OCR accuracy and quality can be as much higher as possible.

encrypted storageStorage and Retrieval

Once scanned, indexed/coded and the final images have been produced, the data then can be supplied on CDs, USB Memory Drive, etc.

Disks and Drives are also encrypted at the request of the client, both software and hardware encryption is available.

Legal Document Storage and Search

For fast and flexible storage and retrieval, the data can also be supplied in our exclusive following products:

ECB  (USB Based eDiscovery Tool) - Completely portable case file and eDisclosure software
ColldDox (Browser Based eDiscovery and eDisclosure System) – Power full feature rich, easy to use team collaborative inhouse or hosted eDiscovery Review System
Halogen – Desktop based document and file storage and retrieval software
LazyWeb – Online based document storage and retrieval system
ShareLive – Full fledged hosted/online document management system
LazyWorks – The most simple and low cost desktop document management software

For more information, please contact us on

0161 832 7991

or request a call back.

Alternatively, fill in our contact form on the contact page for a quick response.

We will treat your information with up most confidentiality and security and will not pass your details to any third parties.


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