You can send facts from a document open in Adobe® Acrobat or Adobe Reader to CaseMap. This creates entries for the document itself and for the fact you entered. As part of the process of sending the fact, you can identify persons, organizations, and places, named in the fact text, adding them to the Persons, Organizations, and Places spreadsheets respectively. Alternatively, if you only want to send the document to CaseMap without sending a fact, you can do that too. By default, the document is added to the Documents spreadsheet. However. you can add it as a pleading, discovery, demonstrative evidence, or any other object type.
Find this feature
| • | Open Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader. Enable text selection. Either right-click some selected text to send a fact or right click anywhere in the document to send the document. Then select either Send Fact to CaseMap or Send PDF to CaseMap. |
| 1. | Open the Adobe Acrobat file you are reviewing. |
| 2. | In Acrobat, click on the Select Tool button  and highlight the text you want to import. |
| 3. | Right-click on the highlighted text and click Send Fact to CaseMap. |
You can also click the Send Fact to CaseMap button under CaseMap DocPreviewer.
| 4. | In the Send to CaseMap - New Fact box, select Document. |
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If CaseMap does not recognize the document as on object in the case, a Link this PDF to CaseMap dialog box displays instead for you to add this record to the Documents object spreadsheet. Once you complete this step, you see the Create New Fact dialog box.
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| 5. | In the Enter a name for the new Document field, type in the full name of the document. |
| 6. | In the Enter the assigned short name field, type in a short name for the document, then click OK. |
| 7. | In the Send to CaseMap – New Fact box, select Fact Text in the Append Text Selection to field so that the excerpt displays in the Facts spreadsheet. |
Notice that the text you selected from the PDF file displays in the Text Selection field and is enclosed in brackets.
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Do not delete the brackets from text excerpts imported using the Send to CaseMap utility. Brackets prevent CaseMap's recognition of short names and designate actual document text for the import.
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| 10. | To enable object recognition, in the Would you like to recognize objects within the selected text section, slide the button to the right. The steps to use object recognition are described in the next section. To skip object recognition, go to the next numbered step in this procedure. For more information on using object recognition, see: About Object Recognition for Fact Entry. |
To use object recognition when sending a fact to CaseMap
| • | Suggested instances in the selection of Persons, Organizations, and Places are listed on cards in the panel to the right. Each card indicates whether a match was found to an existing object. |
| • | Suggested matches are also highlighted in the fact selection box. |
| • | Both cards and text highlighting are color-coded: Persons as yellow, Organizations as green, and Places as pink. |
| • | CaseMap locks the selection text from editing. |
Review the highlighted match suggestions and cards:
| • | To reject a suggested match, either click the highlighted text then click the X.
Or click the X on the lower right corner of the card.
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| • | To change a suggested match from one type to another, click the card for the match, click the Type field, and select a new type.
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| • | To designate text as a new object, select the text, right-click the selection, and then click Person, Organization, or Place.
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After adding an object, its card moves to the bottom of the left pane.
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| 11. | In the Date & Time field, type in the date of the fact. |
| 12. | In the Fact Text field, type in a fact summary/short description of the imported text. |
| 13. | This text description will display in the Fact Text field in the Facts spreadsheet and appears as a Fact Card in the Fact Cards view. |
| 14. | Select the Key check box, if this fact record is important to the case. |
| 15. | In the Status field, select whether the fact is disputed or not. |
| 16. | Click the Issue Linker bar to link the fact directly to issues, then click OK to initiate the import process. |
| 17. | In the message prompt, click Yes to view the new fact record in the Facts spreadsheet. |
| 18. | Click in the Fact Text field for this fact record to view the highlighted text you sent from the Word document. |
| 19. | Click on the paperclip icon for the fact record to view the linked path to the source file in Word. |
| 20. | Scroll to the right and notice that the Source(s) field displays the linked element to the Word document and that the Linked Issue field displays any issues added for this record. |
| 21. | Click All Objects in the Case Shortcuts pane to see newly identified objects (Persons, Organizations and Places) added to the Object spreadsheets. |
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If you need to update a fact record in CaseMap with new or additional text from the PDF source file, simply select the highlighted text and resending it to the case.
| 1. | In the Facts spreadsheet, click on the fact record you want to update. |
| 2. | In the Acrobat source file, highlight the text you want to add to the Fact Text field for this record. |
| 3. | Click the CaseMap DocPreviewer button and then click Advanced > Send Fact to CaseMap - Update. |
| 4. | In the Send to CaseMap - Edit Fact box, review the updated text in the Text Selection field and make any other field updates. |
| 5. | When you are finished, click OK to save the updates in the fact record. |
| 6. | Return the fact record in the Facts spreadsheet to verify that the updated text was added after any existing text in the Fact Text field. |
You may want to review and edit the Fact Text field if there is duplicate information.
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You must select the fact record you want to update before sending the new text to CaseMap. Otherwise, the Send to CaseMap wizard opens the Add New CaseMap Object box if the document is not recognized as part of the case. CaseMap then creates a new fact record for the imported text with a link back to the document.
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