Editorial Services

Digitization

Preserve your archives and make them available online.

Convert your paper documents into digital collections indexed by your search engine using optical character recognition (OCR). Depending on your needs, the scanning can be done at your location or at ours.

File Conversion

Convert your files without losing their structure.

Convert your documents—whether old or new—into formats that are ready to view, publish, and share. Lexum batch-converts your text files to HTML, PDF, or ePub formats while preserving images, tables, footnotes, and hyperlinks.

Metadata Extraction

Reduce manual data entry and speed up the publication of your documents.

Lexum automatically extracts key information from your decisions, including the parties, judges, dates, and case numbers. The data can then be validated by your team or by our legal technicians.

Document Formatting and Modeling

Standardize your collections and streamline their publication. Lexum structures your documents using standardized templates and styles to make them more consistent, easier to browse, and easier to enrich. We can also add bookmarks to PDF files to make them easier to navigate.

Anonymization

Protect sensitive information before publication. Our semi-automated approach identifies and removes names and confidential information from judicial and administrative decisions. Each document is then reviewed by our legal specialists to minimize risks and allow you to publish with confidence.

Title Composition

Provide each decision with a clear and consistent title. Based on the names of the parties, Lexum drafts titles that comply with the legal standard best suited to your collection.

Legislative Consolidation

Provide up-to-date legislative texts without losing their history. Lexum incorporates amendments to produce reliable consolidated versions and preserve the legislative history. We can process your amendments or monitor those published by third parties.

Adding Hyperlinks to Legal Citations

Give your readers direct access to the sources you cite. Lexum automatically identifies legal citations and adds links to the corresponding documents, including those on CanLII in Canada and Fastcase in the United States.

Semantic Clustering of Documents

Help your users quickly discover the most relevant content. Using machine learning, Lexum analyzes the relationships between documents to suggest citations, group related content, and generate keywords.

Typography

Turn your content into professional, print-ready publications. Our typesetters format your content according to your specifications, with special expertise in producing case law compilations.

WCAG Accessibility

Make your content accessible from the moment it’s created. Our approach structures documents as they’re written and then automates their conversion to HTML that complies with WCAG standards. This reduces the need for manual corrections and allows you to publish more efficiently.

Turnkey Publishing

Keep your collections up to date without adding to your team’s workload. Send us your documents, and Lexum will handle their formatting, accessibility, metadata extraction, and publication in your online solution.