litsupport summary for the week ending on 12/21/08

A lot of important and useful information is posted to litsupport each week. The following is a distilled summary, in the form of questions and answers.

Q. How to preserve metadata from MS Word documents before converting them to PDF?

A.

1. Scan the media using File Investigator and export the captured metadata as a CSV file;
2. Extract the metadata and place it in the load file that you will use to import the TIFF/PDF into your review tool,using programs such as Discovery Assistant, LAW or Discovery Cracker;
3. Use something such as Metadataminer Catalogue to extract the metadata from the Word documents, then import into your review tool linked with the appropriate documents;
4. If the files need to be copied from the CD to the computer, use Robocopy or SafeCopy to preserve metadata;
5. Use a standalone tool like MetaDiscover from Pinpoint Labs;
   

This summary from the Litsupport Group postings created by the wonderful and talented members of the group has been culled by Mark Kerzner (mkerzner@top8.biz) and edited by Aline Bernstein (aline.bernstein@gmail.com).