Digitizing illegible scans: How PyleHound rescues poor document quality

Do you know this? You receive an important file, an excerpt from the Federal Gazette, or pleadings from the opposing side – but the quality is catastrophic. Yellowed paper, crooked copies, or scans that look like they have been faxed ten times already. Reading such documents is not only exhausting but eats up valuable working time.

We show you using the example of a barely readable scan from the Federal Gazette how PyleHound solves this problem in seconds.

Key Takeaways

• Maximum recognition rate: PyleHound extracts text content precisely, even when the human eye fails with yellowed or noisy scans.
• Immediate usability: After import, an AI summary and the extracted full text are immediately available.
• Interactive work: Via the chat function, specific questions can be asked of the document or summaries generated without having to tediously decipher the original text.

How does PyleHound process low-quality scans?

PyleHound uses state-of-the-art OCR and AI algorithms to recognize text structures even in visually severely compromised documents and convert them into clean, digital text.

The process is as follows:

1. Import: You upload the PDF file (e.g., a bad scan from the Federal Gazette) via drag-and-drop into the platform.
2. Processing: The AI analyzes the image material in the background. Even if the scan is barely readable to the human eye, the algorithm identifies the letters and context.
3. Result: Via the details menu (the three dots), you can immediately view the "Extracted Text". The document is now available in digital, copyable, and searchable form.

What advantages does the automatic summary offer for illegible files?

The automatic summary allows lawyers to grasp the content of a document without having to decipher the hard-to-read original file line by line.

Directly after the upload, PyleHound generates a concise overview of the content in the "AI Summary" tab. In the case shown, the system immediately recognizes what the announcement from the Federal Ministry of Justice is about, even though the source material was visually severely impaired. This serves as a first filter to quickly assess the relevance of a document.

How can lawyers interact with the digitized document?

Via the chat function, users can enter into a direct dialogue with the document and delegate specific work tasks to the AI.

Instead of just reading the text passively, you can:

• Start a new conversation with the document.
• Enter commands like: “Create a summary for me” or “What deadlines are mentioned?”.
• Receive the answer in seconds based on the digitized data, regardless of the visual quality of the original scan.

Conclusion

Bad scans from the court or the opposing side no longer have to be time-wasters. Instead of deciphering files in "good light" and with a magnifying glass, PyleHound takes over the visual heavy lifting and immediately provides you with workable text.

Would you like to test how well your worst files can be digitized? Upload your document to PyleHound now.

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Transcript

We received a terribly bad scan from the Federal Gazette today and naturally want to work with it – specifically digitally. But you can hardly read it yourself. And so, of course, we ask PyleHound.

We import the file. After it has been successfully imported, we can now display the details of the file here on these three dots. And there we already have a summary directly, although the scan was really hardly readable.

The content of this document can now already be read and viewed here in the "Extracted Text" area. Furthermore, you can now also start a new conversation with this document directly.

Here you then have the document in digital form and can also immediately process it further digitally in this sense. Namely by asking questions, such as: "Create a summary for me".

And that is naturally also how it works with, for example, terrible case files that you have received – scans from the court, from the opponent. Otherwise, you would be sitting there for a very long time in very good light. And here you can just process all of that further digitally immediately, no matter what the quality is.