Product Updates for Public Defense - January 2025
We have rolled out a beta feature to support Documents in Reduct! We are also hosting a webinar to introduce this feature and answer any questions you may have. Please sign up here.
Here are the links to the previous product update — Summer 2025, October 2025, September 2025.
(1) Documents in Reduct!
Whether it’s the arrest report from the police, images or documents produced in discovery, or transcripts of hearings, Reduct can now help you work with documents!
Reduct now supports: documents (.txt, .pdf, .docx, and even .pptx and .xls), and a wide variety of image formats.
Go to the “Documents” tab in Reduct, and drag and drop files to the left sidebar.
(2) Highlight and tag all your discovery in one place
You’ve already got body-worn camera, jail calls, and other audio/video discovery in Reduct. Now, you can put transcripts from hearing, police reports, affidavits, and even hand-written notes from officers in the same case project.
You can highlight documents, add comments, and add tags, just like in a recording. This way – all of your evidence analysis during trial prep can happen in one place.
(3) Search through hundreds of pages
Reduct’s document support includes OCR by default. So you can work with 100-page transcripts just as well as hand-drawn autopsy reports. Reduct’s keyword search can look through hundreds of pages of documents, and find text – both typed and hand-written. When you type a query into the transcript search, you will see results in both the Recordings and Documents tab.
(4) Summarize your documents, and ask questions
When you get pages and pages of DNA bench notes or a densely technical drug lab report, use AI to help you decipher what’s inside. Instead of spending hours manually decoding pages and pages of dense, technical language just to decide if you need to hire an expert, you can use our Interact feature to summarize the documents, or ask questions of them.
And just like with recordings, each summary-item and question-response comes with reference links to where in the document information is being pulled from.
(5) Join our webinar introducing the feature
We’ll walk through these features in more depth during an upcoming webinar – we’ll walk through all of the ways in which you can work with Documents in Reduct.
We would welcome your feedback, questions, and suggestions for future development!