Redaction Project Hacks for Large Document Sets
- Barrett N.
- Aug 29
- 2 min read
Review and compliance teams face a variety of challenges when relying entirely on manual review for huge document sets.
Those challenges include:
Not enough time before expected deadlines
Coordinating larger review teams
Variety of document types, sizes, and formats
Sensitive information comes in many forms and variations
Resulting in extra work due to:
Over or under-redacting
Inconsistent productions
Missed quality control
Burnt out reviewers
How can Blackout projects help users avoid all that?
Here are some recommendations that will enhance your manual workflows – sourced from a recent webinar hosted by the Milyli support team. The recording of that webinar is embedded at the end of this blog.
1: Use Blackout's CSV Support
Managing redactions across large document sets—or even just a few gargantuan Excel files—can be daunting. These documents also include thousands of instances of sensitive information. However, Blackout simplifies finding and redacting them by allowing users to import existing or common markup rules via CSV files.
This eliminates significant time sinks from larger workflows. First, it eliminates or reduces the time dedicated to rule-building at startup. Second, Blackout uses your trusted rules to rapidly apply consistent markups across a big set or several big sets of documents.
2: Reuse Blackout Work Product
Blackout facilitates numerous ways to reuse work product beyond supporting rules imported via CSV. For example, users can leverage existing saved searches and dtSearches to automate the markup of Native Excels, Images, and PDFs. Blackout also offers Suggested Redactions to speed up and enhance the manual review process and ensure consistency with reduced effort.
See more in the video below or read Make the Most of Redaction Work Product Turn Black Boxes Into Gold➜
3: Add Earlier, Non-disruptive QC with Blackout
Delaying or rushing quality control often leads to expensive delays or rushed, error-prone work. Blackout users see much shorter production times because its features and settings are designed to consider frequent quality control decisions.
With just a few clicks, Blackout users can convert highlights to redactions, correct inconsistent redaction text (such as misspellings), and standardize markup types across an entire document set. This allows the team to later conduct the dedicated QC portion of their workflow with manual correction and an easy means of making adjustments if there are mistakes.
Be sure to read about the Seven Benefits of Pre-Redacting and Pre-Highlighting➜
Remember: Human Support Is Included!
Beyond advanced features, Milyli wants to ensure users succeed when using Blackout. We feel advanced features and superior support can make complex, large-scale matters easier to manage and produce properly.
Our customers never have to face a challenging workflow alone. Licensing Blackout includes free, dedicated Account Management and Technical Support services. Whether troubleshooting a specific workflow with live agent ticketing or setting up custom training to implement new features, included support is designed to help users maximize the value of their investment in Blackout.
For more on this, read: Superior Support Means Working with Human Beings ➜
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