Evidence: upload, Bates numbers, OCR and privilege

Drop a production or a folder of files. Evidentor encrypts each file on arrival, hashes it, gives every page a Bates number, pulls out the text (with OCR for scans) and makes it searchable.

Upload

1. Open the case's Evidence tab (or the Evidence page and pick the case).
2. Optionally name the production. Drop files onto the box or press Choose files. Each file uploads separately with its own progress bar; up to 100 MB per file.
3. Watch the pipeline counters: received, text and OCR, processing, entities linked, flagged privileged.

What happens to each file

PDFs, Word, Excel and text are read page by page; scanned pages and images are OCR'd. Emails are opened with their attachments; zips are unpacked (nested up to three levels, with limits against zip bombs). Audio and video get a waveform and go to transcription. Duplicates (same SHA-256) are skipped.

Bates numbers

Numbers are issued per page in upload order using the case prefix, for example MER-000012. Files inside an email or zip get their own ranges. Numbers are never reused, even after a delete.

Open a file

Click a row. You see the pages with their Bates labels, the chain of custody (hash, received, processed, encrypted at rest) and, for recordings, a link to the transcript. Original downloads the exact bytes you uploaded; Preview shows PDFs and images in place.

Search inside documents

The search box above the file table searches every page in the case and shows highlighted snippets. Click one to open the page.

Privilege

Files whose text reads like attorney-client material are flagged automatically and held back: investigators and viewers cannot open them, analysis never reads them, and nothing from them is sent to the model. Attorneys and admins can release or mark privilege on any file; attachments inherit it.