Our new version of iRedline will be showcased in the Esquire Innovations’ demo room and booth, #635 at the 2009 International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) conference, held August 24-27 in Washington D.C.

The new version allows users to compare PDF to PDF documents, or PDF to Word documents. The result can be formatted in a PDF or Word format.

iRedline was designed to enhance document comparison in Word by providing additional tools and flexibility to the native Compare and Track Changes tools. I feel the product’s popularity is due to iRedline’s ability to consolidate and provide shortcuts to frequently used and hard to find features, fix broken features, as well as add features that are missing in Word and that are crucial for attorneys and law firms.

In addition to the new document comparison features, the new version of iRedline also now preserves the Track Changes Options fidelity per document, rather than limiting it to the user’s machine, as Word does by default, which is an irritating thing Word does. Preserving the Track Changes Options follows our philosophy of Enhanced Native Architecture (ENA). ENA builds upon the user interface and features of the existing parent software application whenever possible. ENA keeps custom applications consistent with parent software native functionality. Result documents are simply Word documents with Track Changes, but those changes now retain the original scheme of the result document on any computer through which the document is being viewed, vs the changes formatted to the viewer’s Track Changes settings.

As more firms are upgrading to Office 2007 they are finding Word’s document comparison feature is more powerful and accurate than previous versions. Firms are starting to use the native Word Document Compare as an alternative to purchasing expensive 3rd party software that takes document comparison outside of Word and outside the user’s control. But as we all know native Word is missing some essential parts for law firms. iRedline fills these gaps by providing DMS integration and greater control over result documents.

Another enhancement available in the new iRedline version is advanced DMS integration (right-click from the DMS, and attachments and related documents) for OpenText and Interwoven and We aren’t stopping there. In the near future iRedline will be integrated with Worldox, Prolaw and NetDocuments.

Currently we are holding webinar training for the new version for users of iRedline. The response from the trainings has been positive, with one law firm IT manager writing, “I know the attorneys/staff will appreciate the new features.

iRedline was first introduced in 2003 and has become a product of choice by law firms. Users of the product, particularly those already familiar with Word’s Compare and Track Changes options, report that iRedline is extremely simple, and that the enhancements to Word saves time and increases productivity.

In addition to the new features, some of the features iRedline adds to native Word include:

• Ability to create different comparison schemes
• Ability to navigate to, and accept and reject, DeltaView changes, and to convert DeltaView changes to tracked changes
• The ability to create change reports
• Print pages with revisions only
• Email all three documents (original, revised, result) with one click
• Create a composite document with original and revised zipped inside the result document
• Tag text to be ignored during comparison

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