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Short, illustrated guides for the redaction path, Fast Track, cases, integrations, and compliance.
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Getting started with Northdocs
Open a Case, review with Fast Track, finalize, and export only after verification passes.
Fast Track review
Entity-first triage: accept one person or organization once and every instance follows.
Export wizard & OCR security
Pending checks, watermarks, page numbers, exhibit stamps, appendix, and rasterize.
FOI Case OS: deadlines, exemptions, and response memos
Run Danish aktindsigt and GDPR DSAR packs with statutory clocks, exemption schedules, consultations, and a finalized response memo.
Integrations overview
Connect SharePoint, OneDrive, iManage, HighQ, Datasite, Danish ESDH systems, S3, or webhooks.
Outbound Guard (Outlook)
Send-time personal-data protection for Outlook compose and send.
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Getting started
First hour in Northdocs: cases, modules, and the standard review path.
4 articles
Documents
What you can upload, size limits, and how conversion works.
1 article
Detection
What Northdocs finds, how to tune it, and when to use Magic Redact.
3 articles
Review
Fast Track, case identities, mixed apply modes, and manual boxes.
5 articles
Cases and FOI
Templates, binders, FOI Case OS, production, and conversation files.
9 articles
Export and proof
The verify gate, OCR rasterize, and QA certificates.
3 articles
Prompt Guard
Wipe clipboard text before it reaches an AI tool.
1 article
Settings
Pseudonym schemes and workspace defaults.
1 article
Integrations
DMS, ESDH, Outlook Outbound Guard, and write-back.
23 articles
Enterprise
SSO, ethical walls, and the redaction benchmark.
3 articles
Compliance
Retention, residency, envelope encryption, and BYOK.
3 articles
Developers
API keys, webhooks, and the OpenAPI contract.
1 article
Getting started
First hour in Northdocs: cases, modules, and the standard review path.
4 articles
Open a Case, review with Fast Track, finalize, and export only after verification passes.
Start a case as DSAR, FOI, litigation disclosure, or RFP proposal and get a matching checklist.
Tailor Northdocs with a business category and admin-enabled modules. Plan entitlement means you can buy a module; enablement turns it on for your workspace.
Assign versioned detection, pseudonymization, and export defaults to an organization or case.
Documents
What you can upload, size limits, and how conversion works.
1 article
Detection
What Northdocs finds, how to tune it, and when to use Magic Redact.
3 articles
What Northdocs looks for and how to tune it with keywords.
The difference between removing data and replacing it consistently.
Describe custom PII in plain language; Northdocs validates and applies AI-assisted filters (Pro+).
Review
Fast Track, case identities, mixed apply modes, and manual boxes.
5 articles
Entity-first triage: accept one person or organization once and every instance follows.
Shared people and organizations across every document in a case.
Black out some categories while pseudonymizing others in one apply pass.
Draw boxes, redact whole pages, or apply the same region across pages.
Optional dual-control approval before export (Firm+).
Cases and FOI
Templates, binders, FOI Case OS, production, and conversation files.
9 articles
Scrub vendor proposals for pricing, contacts, registration details, NDA terms, and trade secrets before controlled sharing.
Triage statutory deadlines across accessible cases by risk, jurisdiction, ownership, and open consultations.
Build exhibit packs with a customizable table of contents, subheadings, and exhibit stamps.
Spot legal privilege and work-product language, record review decisions, and export a case privilege log.
Magic-link view access for counterparties.
Build a selected-document production with Bates ranges, a withheld schedule, watermarks, and download receipts.
Redact Teams, Slack, and WhatsApp chats, WebVTT and SubRip transcripts, and meeting recordings with beep, silence, or forensic voice anonymization. Video is not supported.
Assemble exhibit packs and share redacted outputs with outside counsel (Firm+).
Run Danish aktindsigt and GDPR DSAR packs with statutory clocks, exemption schedules, consultations, and a finalized response memo.
Export and proof
The verify gate, OCR rasterize, and QA certificates.
3 articles
Pending checks, watermarks, page numbers, exhibit stamps, appendix, and rasterize.
Know which pages were OCR'd and how to export non-searchable output.
Issue, verify, download, supersede, and revoke signed evidence for completed redactions.
Prompt Guard
Wipe clipboard text before it reaches an AI tool.
1 article
Settings
Pseudonym schemes and workspace defaults.
1 article
Integrations
DMS, ESDH, Outlook Outbound Guard, and write-back.
23 articles
Send-time personal-data protection for Outlook compose and send.
Download redacted DOCX/XLSX without converting everything to PDF.
Connect SharePoint, OneDrive, iManage, HighQ, Datasite, Danish ESDH systems, S3, or webhooks.
Microsoft Graph site libraries, OAuth, and folder scope.
OneDrive for Business via Microsoft Graph.
Universal API v2 OAuth against your Work server.
Collaborate sites used widely by Danish and Nordic Big Law.
VDR projects, filerooms, metadata browse, and Upload API write-back.
S3-compatible buckets (AWS S3, Cloudflare R2, MinIO) with SigV4 and optional private MinIO.
Pull a JSON file manifest from an HTTPS endpoint your systems expose.
When and how redacted files return to the source DMS.
Sandbox evidence checklist: connect, import, redact, write-back, and audit before enabling production write-back.
Sandbox evidence checklist for HighQ Collaborate write-back before production go-live.
WorkZone, Nova, F2/cBrain, Acadre, SBSYS, and GetOrganized for municipal journals.
WorkZone OData Files/Documents with WzOAuth2 client credentials.
Nova journal via WorkZone OData (default) or legacy /api/cases REST.
F2Rest /cases and /documents. cBrain in the catalog is the same adapter.
Acadre PWI REST under /Frontend/Api with Basic or Bearer after the kommune STS.
SBSIP REST plus a required OAuth2/OIDC token URL.
Netcompany GetOrganized via /_goapi. Basic or Bearer only; NTLM is not supported.
Enterprise: create a private link, install the NetBird agent, health-check the mesh, and connect on-prem ESDH/DMS without a public journal URL.
Sandbox evidence checklist for Danish ESDH connectors before production write-back.
Token expiry, 403s, delta resync, file size limits.
Enterprise
SSO, ethical walls, and the redaction benchmark.
3 articles
Separate opposing matter teams with groups, explicit rules, conflict pairs, and audited emergency access.
Download the multi-scenario challenge pack as PDF, Word, Excel, or PowerPoint, redact offline, upload results, and compare your score to Northdocs.
Firm IT runbook: guided SSO in Organization profile → Security, Enforce SSO, Directory Sync (SCIM), and group → org role recipes.
Compliance
Retention, residency, envelope encryption, and BYOK.
3 articles
How Northdocs handles storage, retention and EU data residency.
Enterprise opt-in: encrypt document files in object storage with a unique key per document.
Enterprise setup guide: customer-managed key in your Azure Key Vault wraps the Northdocs organization encryption key.
Developers
API keys, webhooks, and the OpenAPI contract.
1 article