Summation and Image Capture Engineering Announce Enhanced e-Discovery Integration

San Francisco, CA - April 7, 2004. The enhanced DII import facility in Summation® Blaze LG/iBlaze Version 2.6, together with Image Capture Engineering's LAW+Z-Print Electronic Discovery Bundle, facilitate the expanded processing and loading of electronic evidence and images into Summation.

While Summation's popular eDiscovery console gives law firms the capacity to internally process common forms of native electronic evidence (e.g., Outlook mailboxes, Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, and other Office-style native eDoc files), service bureaus provide a much broader spectrum of electronic evidence processing capability, especially for large volumes. For example, many electronic evidence service bureaus provide:

• Specialized data acquisition services
• High quality processing of large volumes of Microsoft Outlook and Lotus Notes e-mail
• High quality processing of large volumes of native file formatted electronic documents
• Large volume de-duplication
• First order winnowing via key word and concept filtering engines
• Content text, embedded text, fielded data and metadata extraction
• Large volume "petrification" (conversion to image file format) for review, redaction or presentation
• Customizable spreadsheet processing options

Service bureaus and law firm office services departments that have selected the LAW software suite, can now empower their litigation team customers to effectively handle, not just survive, the explosion of electronic evidence in day-to-day litigation and regulatory matters. With the LAW / Z-Print bundle, service bureaus can export processed eDiscovery into an eDII file for immediate load into Summation.

ICE has seamlessly integrated their Z-Print and LAW software to provide the new Electronic Discovery Bundle. Now it is even easier to extract, convert, print, QC, endorse, and produce load files for popular litigation databases and trial presentation applications. In addition, users can easily share their project across multiple machines and eliminate the need to manually select files for each system.

Many legal professionals are required to produce large collections of documents in a variety of formats. Some of these exist in e-mail messages and attachments, while others are stored in popular office document formats or images. Z-Print is a powerful utility to deconstruct e-mail archive files, generate native electronic files for loading into Summation and then batch print or convert those files to TIFF image files. Key Z-Print features include:

• Captures e-mail header information from Outlook .PST files
• Captures document metadata from electronic files
• Captures native file attachments with relationships to source e-mail messages
• Customization of included file types
• Conversion of all supported file types to TIFF images
• Captures full-text from text-based files
• Batch printing of office documents or e-mail
• Supports dozens of file types
• Recursive printing of selected folder(s)
• Generation of a folder summary by file type

Z-Print also comes with a TIFF printer, so the same batch process used to print multiple documents can be used convert those documents or e-mail messages to TIFF images simply by selecting the TIFF printer as the active printer. This is a tremendous time and paper saver, completely eliminating the need to print and scan the documents to get them in an image format. The documents (in image format) can then be viewed using virtually any image viewer and/or imported into a document management application for easy retrieval.

Z-Print supports Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook (e-mail), WordPerfect, Lotus 1-2-3, Text, HTML, Adobe Acrobat (*.pdf), Compressed Archives (*.zip), Images (*.tif, *.jpg, *.bmp), and more.

Key EDD features and enhancements in iBlaze Version 2.6 include:

• Search, retrieve, view, analyze and manage native file based e-mail and electronic documents alone, or in tandem with, paper or image-based documents, transcripts, issues and events.
• Filter and search e-mail, attachments, or electronic documents alone, then expand search results to include family summaries.
• Flexible production tools to allow document production as native files, converted images, or mixed media - including the option to use our increasingly popular Briefcase technology. Briefcasing features include delivery of production Briefcases as SBF files, or Browser Briefcases for production set review by those have do not have Summation but do have Microsoft Internet Explorer.

Summation Blaze LG/iBlaze Version 2.6 is shipping now. Maintenance customers should watch the mail for their copies and upgrade as soon as possible to take advantage of this enhanced functionality.

More information about Image Capture Engineering is available at www.imagecap.com.