Interopoerability

MEEHANGROUP: Technology is never the issue in US litigations involving Japanese companies because e-discovery companies have great software. There is no excellent software but there are good / good-enough software to scan millions of pages of docs onto optical drives for transporting them back to the US. These software are called OCR (optical character recognition - there is no ONE industry standard OCR that works for all cases / character types). There are quite a few types of files that are difficult to scan using even the best OCR so it is a make-shift solution and still much of the copying is done manually. (US and European standard OCR wont work well or at all on Japanese files that for example are prepared using old Japanese word processor and japanese spreadsheet documents that are now obsolete. So, a good e-discovery specialist will be aware of compatibility issues to how to overcome them quickly. )