Xerox shows off Smart Document Review table, a Surface that sifts through billions of docs videoBy Tim Stevens posted Dec 20th 2010 10:24AM You have a lot of documents youve acquired over the years, hundreds or thousands in some semblance of order thanks to folders and whatnot. Now, imagine taking the output from hundreds or thousands of others, all with their own ideas about organization, and finding only those pages relevant to a certain topic. Thats what legal aides have to do in cases where a major corporation is being investigated, and were thinking thats a major target market for Xeroxs Smart Document Review. Its a prototype touchscreen table that enables users to collaboratively filter documents, starting by indexing a giant pool and then allowing for the creation of “magnets” that contain keywords or other heuristics and dynamically pull out matches, all happening courtesy of animations that look only slightly less sophisticated than those seen in Hackers. Search results can then be dumped to a thumb drive. The prototype table dates back to earlier this year, but Xerox is now making them available as part of a pilot program exclusively for trendy law offices with unisex bathrooms.[Thanks, Pradeep]

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