Elevate your review experience with PDF transcripts, complete with sticky notes and comprehensive annotation tools, enabling a deeper understanding and insightful analysis.
PDFs are widely used by courts all over the United States, but there is no federal standard for transcripts to be delivered in PDF format that state courts are also mandated to follow.
Court reporters can provide PDF versions of a transcript to their clients, but the native transcript file format is an ASCII TXT, which is the format used by TranscriptPad and most transcript review software. While ASCII TXT is the standard and the best format for legal transcript review, there are times when the ASCII TXT format is not available. This includes hand-typed transcripts of dahs-cam or body-cam footage, or transcripts from old case files, where the original ASCII TXT format has been lost.
If you have a transcript that is only available as a PDF file, import it into DocReviewPad where you can assign Issue Codes to pages of the transcript, and even add sticky notes next to important page/lines.
Here's how to create and add Notes to your PDF transcripts in DocReviewPad:
- Tap your PDF transcript to view it the Preview Window.
- Tap the Note tool at the top of the Preview Window. A yellow Note will appear on the page, with an area to type your notes.
- After adding a Note, you can move and position on the page as desired.
- Repeat the above steps to add multiple Notes to the page.
In addition to sticky notes, you can use the highlight, pen, or redact annotations, and use issue codes for single pages or entire documents.
All issue codes and annotations are automatically saved in DocReviewPad, allowing you to find and sort through the most important documents, using your notes, annotations, and issue codes as reference points. Get started today!
