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I expected a Google product to be adept at search, but WOW! Pinpoint’s AI proved a powerful adjunct to human exploration. The attachments uploaded, images were OCR’ed and audio files were transcribed! Even handwritten items were converted to searchable text! What? WHAT! I quickly realized that Pinpoint hadn’t processed email attachments, so I grabbed the native attachments and pointed Pinpoint to them. Within minutes, Google converted the emails to PDFs and ran optical character recognition (OCR) against embedded imagery.

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Yet, a glimmer of hope crept over the transom today as I dragged and dropped a container file holding 50,000 e-mail messages into a free Google tool called Pinpoint. The vendors are laughing still…all the way to the bank.

A dozen years ago, I laid down the EDna Challenge begging the vendor community for something a lawyer could use to process and review small collections of ESI for less than $1,000.00. I’ve decried the absence of low-cost eDiscovery tools since Edison recorded sound. Something simple that lets lawyers see and search electronic evidence without spending a bunch of money. What this country needs is a really low cost e-discovery platform. Marshall’s name at all, it is only as the man who reportedly said, “ What this country needs is a really good five-cent cigar.” Marshall would go on to be Vice President of the United States under Woodrow Wilson yet, if you know Thomas R. “Aught eight” was also the year another lawyer, William Howard Taft, became President of the United States and still another lawyer, Thomas Riley Marshall, became Governor of Indiana. To be clear, dad probably wasn’t born a lawyer yet everything about him supported the conclusion that he sprang from the womb clutching a Harvard Law degree. That was the year my lawyer father, Herbert Ball, was born–113 years ago tomorrow. Like most, I mark time in milestones, and a milestone year for me is 1908.

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