Generate Native PDF and Spreadsheet Views

New views have been introduced in the Reveal Document Viewer to enhance the user review experience.

• PDF View offers clean, efficient document viewing with integrated search, print, export and redaction, among other benefits. This is the new default view for Reveal Document Viewer.

• Spreadsheet View (Blackout) provides a native, grid-style experience for reviewing spreadsheets online. Reviewers can fine-tune readability without altering the original file and access tools for searching, printing, exporting, and redacting. Spreadsheet View is the dedicated workspace for spreadsheet redaction using blackout technology, enabling reviewers to confidently obscure sensitive cells, rows, columns, or ranges.

• Media Player improves handling of video and audio content to provide a more adaptive layout for different screen sizes, improved transcript presentation and search.

Spreadsheet View and Native View require user action to prepare existing document data for either view. This must be done on a project-by-project basis. The procedures for converting (A) non-spreadsheet native documents to PDF view and (B) spreadsheet native documents to Spreadsheet View are presented below.

Convert Native Documents to PDF (excluding spreadsheets)

1. Open Advanced Search in the current project for which PDF View is to be generated.

2. Under +Add enter file extension in the Search box so that you can see File Extension under the Fields section.
    

3. Select File Extension with the following parameters:

   1. Select IS as your operator.

   2. Click the Items checkbox to select all listed file extensions. The selection box will summarize the currently specified number of items and documents for the search.

   3. Uncheck all spreadsheet file types available in the list. Note the updated values in the selection box.
       

   4. Click ADD TO SEARCH.

4. With this search pill present in the Advanced Search box, click SEARCH.

5. With the search results in Grid view, click Index in the Review Grid toolbar.

6. In the Settings tab, set the following parameters:

   1. Specify a readily recognizable Job Name.

   2. Native Views may be indexed here at Native View or Spreadsheet View or Select All.

   3. Native View Templates may be left Default Template or Intake Imaging.

   4. Text Sets may be indexed here as Extracted, Extracted PDF, Native View, OCR/Loaded or Transcription.

      Note

      When indexing multiple views in a single pass, the following order is applied:

      1. Metadata is indexed first.

      2. Text-based views such as OCR, Extracted, or Transcription are next.

      3. Native views (e.g., PDF, Spreadsheet, Native/HTML) are indexed last.

   5. Clear the Generation Options used for detect color and add alerts to unindexed documents.

   6. Document Filter may be left at All Documents or Unindexed and Error Documents. This field is required. may be left unselected.

   7. A checkbox labeled Skip Redacted or Annotated Documents will be checked.

      Note

      If Negative View is selected, this checkbox will be checked by default. If Native View is selected and the user unchecks this box, a warning message will be displayed. If Native View is not selected, the checkbox will not appear at all.

   8. Click SUBMIT to proceed; job Notifications will automatically be sent to the current user.

   9. CONFIRM the indexing job to proceed.

7. You may open the Jobs screen at the navigation sidebar at left and go to Indexes to follow the progress of the job.

Native View Indexing no longer requires manual initiation by the Review Manager. It now automatically starts for unindexed or errored documents as soon as AI Sync begins, running concurrently with document ingestion.

This improvement accelerates processing workflows by aligning indexing with analysis and overlays, ensuring efficiency and reducing delays.

Convert Spreadsheet Files to Spreadsheet View (Blackout)

Here, you will only be indexing spreadsheet file types.

1. Open Advanced Search and +Add a search for file extension to locate the File Extension field as shown in Items 1 and 2 of the Convert Native Documents to PDF section.

2. Select File Extension with the following parameters:

   

   1. Select IS as your operator.

   2. Select all the spreadsheet file types from this list that are supported (see Supported File Types – Spreadsheet View). Note the updated values in the selection box.

   3. Click ADD TO SEARCH.

3. With this search pill present in the Advanced Search box, click SEARCH.

4. With the search results in Grid view, click Index in the Review Grid toolbar.

5. In the Settings tab, set parameters as shown under Item 6 in the Convert Native Documents to PDF section, but this time setting Native Views to Spreadsheet View.  

   

6. Click SUBMIT to proceed; job Notifications will automatically be sent to the current user.

7. CONFIRM the indexing job to proceed.

8. You may open the Jobs screen at the navigation sidebar at left and go to Indexes to follow the progress of the job.