ABBYY for Legal

ABBYY for Legal
Oleg Sazhin, PhD
Director, Business Development
ABBYY 3A
JUDICIAL PROCESSES DIGITALIZATION
● In December 2006, President Lula signed
LAW 11.419
Judicial Processes Informatization
Informatization is:
“the use of Information Technology”
JUDICIAL PROCESSES DIGITALIZATION
● LAW 11.419 – Judicial Processes Informatization
Article 1º. The use of electronic media will be accepted for processing,
transmission and communication of [...] acts
§ 2º This Law considers [...] electronic media as any form [...]
of digital document
Reduce the paper use
Speed up the process of
processing [legal] processes
[proceduring]
Copy, Paste and Find
JUDICIAL PROCESSES DIGITALIZATION
● LAW 11.419 – Judicial Processes Informatization
Article 11. Electronically produced documents[...]
are considered originals
§ 1º Digital extracts and digitalized documents [...] have
the same demonstrative strength as their originals [...]
digital
PDF
x
OCR
digitalized
TIFF
Leads to more paper
Difficult to manage
No Copy, Paste neither Find
JUDICIAL PROCESSES DIGITALIZATION...
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Tribunals asked for a Process Classification Solution
Input: scanned pages (digitalized)
Output: searchable PDF (digital) with bookmarks,
no blank pages
JUDICIAL PROCESSES DIGITALIZATION...
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Why Bookmarks?
Instance
TST
Tribunal
Superior
Trabalho
TRT
Tribunal
Regional
Trabalho
Judges
Coverage
3rd
(1)
Country
2nd
(25)
State
1st
(15K)
City
Parts
JUDICIAL PROCESSES DIGITALIZATION...
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Why Bookmarks?
What – initial petition
Who – procuration
Why – appeal / sentence
JUDICIAL PROCESSES DIGITALIZATION...
● Solution:
Recognition Server
+ scripts();
JUDICIAL PROCESSES DIGITALIZATION...
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Blank Page Removal Script
Blank Pages or Back Pages are not
actually blanks, they have:

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punch holes
lots of noise
stamp “This is a blank page”
JUDICIAL PROCESSES DIGITALIZATION...
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Classification Script
Classification is based on keywords,
case insensitive string comparison,
boolean operators etc
Procuração
= procuracao
Outorgad?
= outorgado = Outorgada
Substabele*o = Substabeleço = Substabelecido
“Procuração” OR “Instrumento Particular”
AND
“Outorgante” OR “Consignante”
AND
“Outorgado” OR “Consignado”
AddBookmark(“Procuração”);
JUDICIAL PROCESSES DIGITALIZATION...
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Brazilian Judiciary
STF
Supremo
Tribunal
Federal
TJ
Tribunal
Justiça
Judges
STJ
TST
TSE
STM
Supremo
Tribunal
Justiça
Tribunal
Superior
Trabalho
Tribunal
Superior
Eleitoral
Superior
Tribunal
Militar
TRF
TRT
TRE
Tribunal
Regional
Federal
Tribunal
Regional
Trabalho
Tribunal
Regional
Eleitoral
Judges
Judges
Judges
Judges
JUDICIAL PROCESSES DIGITALIZATION...
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Brazilian Judiciary
STF
Supremo
Tribunal
Federal
TJ
Tribunal
Justiça
Judges
STJ
TST
Supremo
Tribunal
Justiça
Tribunal
Superior
Trabalho
TST – 8M PPM
TSE-> 400 pages STM
1 process
Tribunal
Superior
1.000 process
per day
Superior
Tribunal
Eleitoral
Militar
1 month -> 20 days
20 x 1.000 x 400 = 8M PPM
TRF
TRT
TRE
Tribunal
Regional
Federal
Tribunal
Regional
Trabalho
Tribunal
Regional
Eleitoral
Judges
Judges
Judges
TRF 1st region
42 Recognition Server
licenses
400K, 100K and 25K PPM
Judges
JUDICIAL PROCESSES DIGITALIZATION...
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The result at TST
Processes and its procedurings can
be visualized by Internet. There is
no need to go to Tribunals anymore
to get access to the process or to
check its status.
REGISTRO NACIONAL DE LAS PERSONAS
Argentina
60 prisons equipped with FlexiCapture 2M pages per month