OCR reduced costs but increased demand for lawyers overall.
Before OCR, legal teams relied on staff to manually read, annotate, and organize documents, a slow and expensive process. With OCR, lawyers could search and analyze text instantly, dramatically reducing costs. By lowering costs, OCR democratized access to legal services, increasing the overall demand for lawyers. Today, AI is once again reshaping legal work. FLANK.AI automates legal document summarization. Instead of spending hours reviewing paperwork, lawyers can now focus on higher-value tasks like strategy, case analysis, and client advocacy.
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