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What are the Recommended Production Specifications?

When a client does not have production specifications they want to use for their productions we recommend these standard production specifications (these are based on the SEC's standard production specifications).

Our standard recommendation, as well as the current industry standard, is producing documents with load files, Bates numbered image files, native files, and searchable document-level text files. 

  • Images
    • Black & white images 
    • 300 DPI Group IV single-page TIFF files 

    • Branding:

      • Bates (Bottom Right)

      • Confidential Designation (Bottom Left)

    • Placeholders
      • Excel/spreadsheets/Presentations/CAD/Audio/Visual = Document Produced Natively 

      • Unsupported File Type= Unsupported File Type

  • Natives
    • Only the below file types will be produced natively:

      • Excel/Spreadsheets

      • Presentations

      • CAD

      • Audio/Visual 

  • Text
    • Redacted documents: Re-OCR Text

    • Unsupported File Types: Placeholder text

    • All other documents: Extracted Text

  • Load Files
    • DAT
    • OPT
    • Standard Metadata Fields
      • BEGBATES, ENDBATES, BEGATTACH, ENDATTACH, PARENT_BATES, CHILD_BATES, ATTACHMENT NAMES, CUSTODIAN, CUSTODIAN ALL, FROM, TO, CC, BCC, EMAIL_SUBJECT, FILE_NAME, DATE_SENT, TIME_SENT, TIME_ZONE, FILE_EXTEN, AUTHOR, DATE_CREATED, TIME_CREATED, DATE_MOD, TIME_MOD, DATE_ACCESSD, TIME_ACCESSD, PRINTED_DATE, FILE_SIZE, PGCOUNT, INTFILEPATH, MSGID, MD5HASH, OCRPATH, NATIVEPATH