Document Content vs. Metadata in eDiscovery AI: A Clarification of Scope, Access, and Accuracy

Abstract – This article addresses a critical source of confusion in legal technology: the conflation of document content and metadata in generative AI tools for eDiscovery. Document content is the text and visual data you see when you open a file—like emails, Word documents, or PDFs—including headers, footers, tables, and images. Document content does not include metadata (like who created the file or when it was sent), which is stored separately and not visible by default. Metadata encompasses…
By: EDRM – Electronic Discovery Reference Model