Legal documents arrive as scanned PDFs, OCR output, and copied excerpts full of broken line breaks, stray special characters, and inconsistent spacing. Paralegals must clean this text before it goes into a brief, a discovery index, or a review platform — and confidentiality means the cleanup can't touch a third-party server.
This workflow tidies pasted or OCR'd legal text: repair line breaks, remove noise characters, normalize whitespace, and standardize formatting entirely in the browser so privileged material never leaves the machine.
The workflow
1
Repair OCR line breaks
Remove mid-sentence breaks introduced by scanning so paragraphs read correctly.
2
Strip special-character noise
Remove stray symbols and artifacts OCR inserts around headings and page edges.
3
Normalize whitespace
Collapse irregular spacing and tabs into clean, consistent formatting.
4
Find and replace terms
Standardize defined terms and redact placeholders consistently across the document.
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