Solutions – E-Tran

What is an E-Tran?

A RealLegal E-Transcript™, E-Tran for short, is a self-contained, encrypted viewing program for transcripts used by more than 70 percent of the court reporting industry to provide attorneys with a high-performance, standardized, secure electronic transcript.

Once court reporters import their ASCII files into the software, they can activate full-text searching, condensed printing (Minu’s), utilize multiple saving options such as AMICUS, SUMMATION & ASCII’s (standard text files).

Password protection is also available for an encrypted work product. Attorneys receive the finished E-Transcript file, with the popular E-Transcript Viewer embedded or separate, via e-mail, CD-ROM, floppy diskette, or within a RealLegal Publisher bundle.

ASCII stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange. This is a standard format that any and all word processors should be able to read. When viewed, a page image ASCII should look just like the printed transcript. You can also import this into almost any program, i.e. Livenote, Summation, Concordance, Word, WordPerfect, etc.

Download E-Tran Viewer

An E-Tran file is in a .ptx file format. The first time you receive a .ptx formatted transcript, you will need to browse to http://www.reallegal.com/techsupport/ptxviewer.asp and download the free E-Transcript Viewer. You need only do this once. Once you have downloaded and installed the viewer, save the .ptx file to your computer. Double click on the .ptx file which will then launch the viewer.