With Casedo you can directly import the following ten document and image types into Casedo:

• PDFs > .pdf (more information on importing PDFs with bookmarks HERE)
• Word documents > .doc, .docx
• Casedo casefiles > .case (more information HERE)
• Email Messages > .eml and .msg (more information HERE)
• Images > .png and .jpg (as of Casedo v1.10)
• Plain text documents > .txt (as of Casedo v1.10)
• Rich text documents > .rtf (as of Casedo v1.10) (more information HERE)

Documents should be searchable

Though one PDF looks much the same as another to most of us, in fact they do come in a variety of formats, the main three being

• Searchable – Searchable pdfs are what you get if you save a word document as a pdf. The text is embedded in the pdf document and can, therefore, be searched and highlighted by Casedo.
• Non-searchable scans – A non-searchable pdf is essentially a scan of a document, a computer recognises it as an image, it’s not searchable.
• Fillable forms – A fillable form is a searchable pdf with a whole set of additional functionality, as such it is searchable, but can cause layout problems in Casedo.

Casedo loves searchable PDFs. They can be searched and highlighted easily.

Making a pdf searchable

One way of doing this is by using the OCR function within Casedo. Click HERE to know more on how to OCR in Casedo
There are other alternatives to using the OCR feature in Casedo, such as one of the following (there are many alternatives on the market):

• Adobe Acrobat Pro is a subscription-based service (instructions HERE).
• ABBYY FineReader offers a perpetual licence for its software (user guide HERE).

If possible, add generous margins

If you have some control over the creation of the documents that you are going to import into Casedo, create documents with generous margins, this will make it much easier for you when it comes to your document analysis.

A generous top margin will also stop the Casedo document title obscuring the text itself. For more information on this see How do stop the document title covering the document text?

Break up large documents or bundles into smaller chunks

It’s very tempting to scan a 300-page document and import it directly into Casedo. The downside is that Casedo will only recognise it as a single document, and the Index View will reflect this. Whilst bookmarks and linking etc. will still be available, the Index will contain a single item, which can therefore not be re-ordered. As of Casedo v1.10 this can be done easily within the application using the Split document by bookmarks feature.