Visual Digest — labelled "LegalDoc Summary & Visualization" in the product — takes a legal document you upload and returns two things: a plain-language summary with structured key highlights, and a Visualization tab that renders the same document four ways — a case timeline, an IRAC logic diagram, a legal concept map, and an entity-relationship graph. It is built for Philippine legal documents, and it labels every result as AI-generated and to be verified.
What Visual Digest is
Long legal documents bury their structure. A decision's facts, issues, holdings, and the authorities behind them are all in there — but spread across pages of prose. Visual Digest's job is to surface that structure quickly: it reads the document you give it and presents it as a readable summary and as visuals you can scan in seconds.
It is deliberately scoped to Philippine legal documents — decisions, pleadings, orders, contracts — and it is candid about its nature. Every result carries the line "AI-generated content for reference only. Always verify with official documents." Read it as a fast map of a document, not as a substitute for reading the source.
What you do — the steps you see
- Upload a document. Click the upload area or drag and drop a PDF, DOCX, DOC, or TXT file (up to 10 MB). You can also paste text from the clipboard. The file name and size appear once it loads.
- Start the analysis. The arrow (→) button activates once a file is loaded; click it to run the intelligent analysis. After a short processing step, the result opens.
- Check the document type. Visual Digest auto-detects the type and shows it as a label — in this run, "Court Decision." If the detection is off, change it from the dropdown (Court Decision, Contract, Court Order, Complaint, Answer, Motion, Memorandum); the page even prompts you: "Not what you expected? The document type may be incorrect — change it above."
- Read the Summary. The Summary tab gives a plain-language AI summary plus a structured list of Key Highlights.
- Explore the Visualization. The Visualization tab renders four linked views; a "Jump to" bar moves you between Timeline, Logic Diagram, Concept Map, and Entity Graph.
- Export or start over. Export PDF saves the result; New document analyzes another file; Back returns to the upload screen.
The Summary tab
The Summary view answers "what is this document, in plain language?" in two parts.
AI Summary is a narrative paragraph that walks the document end to end — for a decision, that means the parties, the dispute, what each court below did, and how the case was resolved. Key Highlights is the same content pulled into a structured list. The fields adapt to the document; for this decision they were Title, Case Number, Parties, Date, Court, Ruling, Monetary Awards, Risk, and Key Exhibits — including a short, labelled risk read (here, "low") with a one-line rationale.
The Visualization tab — four linked views
This is where Visual Digest earns its name. The same document is rendered four different ways, each answering a different question. A "Jump to" bar links them: Timeline · Logic Diagram · Concept Map · Entity Graph.
1 · Case Timeline — what happened, and when
The timeline lays the document's events along a date axis, grouped into procedural lanes — here PRE-SUIT → RTC → CA → SC. Each event is colour-coded by actor (plaintiff, defendant, court), can be filtered to one side, and cites the part of the record it came from ("cf. Order slip," "cf. RTC Decision," "cf. CA Decision"). It turns a tangle of dates into a single chronological spine.
2 · Logic Diagram — how the court reasoned
The logic diagram is a reasoning tree. It states the disposition, then breaks the case into its issues; under each issue it shows the ruling and the chain behind it — nodes tagged Legal Principle, Factual Finding, Statute, and Conclusion, with the authorities each step rests on. It is the IRAC skeleton of the decision, drawn.
3 · Legal Concept Map — how the arguments connect
The concept map is an argument graph in which every edge is a labelled relation. Facts, claims, defenses, elements, issues, holdings, ratios, authorities, and the relief are drawn as nodes and linked by relations like supported by, based on, requires element, grants, and rebuts. Where the timeline shows sequence and the logic diagram shows the ruling chain, the concept map shows how the whole argument hangs together.
4 · Entity-Relationship Graph — who's who, and how they relate
The entity graph is an ERD of the people, organizations, courts, instruments, assets, and amounts in the document, linked by what they did to one another — party to, sells to, owns, sues, appeals against, renders, pays. It answers "who are the players and how are they connected" at a glance, which is exactly the question a dense caption and recital usually make hard.
At a glance
| View | What it maps | Reading it |
|---|---|---|
| 📅 Case Timeline | The chronology of events | Dates across procedural lanes (PRE-SUIT → RTC → CA → SC), colour-coded by actor, each citing its source |
| 🔀 Logic Diagram | The court's reasoning | An IRAC reasoning tree: each issue → ruling → the principles, findings, statutes, and conclusion behind it |
| 🔗 Legal Concept Map | The argument structure | An argument graph where every edge is a labelled relation linking facts, claims, defenses, elements, holdings, and authorities |
| 👥 Entity Graph | Who's who and how they relate | An ERD of people, organizations, courts, instruments, assets, and amounts, linked by actions (sues, pays, appeals against) |
Being honest about the limits
Two things matter. First, the output is AI-generated — the summary, the highlights (including the "risk" read and the extracted authorities), and the visuals are all model output. The page says as much, and so does this article: treat them as a fast first pass and verify anything you rely on against the official document. Second, the document-type label and the field extraction are best-effort; that is why the type is editable and the prompt invites you to correct it.
Used that way, Visual Digest is a genuine time-saver: it gets you oriented in a long document in moments, and points you straight to the parts worth reading in full.
Why this matters, by reader
Bar-exam candidates. The logic diagram is IRAC, drawn — issues, rulings, and the principles and authorities behind them — which is exactly the structure the exam rewards. Digesting a long decision into its skeleton, then checking your own digest against it, is fast, repeatable practice.
Law students and faculty. The four views model four different ways of reading the same case — sequence, reasoning, argument structure, and the relationships between parties. That makes Visual Digest a useful teaching aid for how a decision is actually built, not just what it held.
Practicing lawyers and in-house counsel. Dropping an opponent's decision, a long pleading, or a contract into Visual Digest gives you the timeline, the parties, the money, and the reasoning chain in one pass — enough to triage what deserves a close read, and to export a clean summary for the file.
Related reading
- Case Contrast — when the question is how two specific cases differ, side by side.
- Deep Synthesis — when you need cited research across many sources, not a digest of one document.
- Contract Review — the same document-in, structure-out idea, tuned to reviewing a contract against Philippine law.
FAQ
What file types and size does Visual Digest accept?
PDF, DOCX, DOC, and TXT, up to 10 MB. Click to choose a file, drag and drop it onto the upload area, or paste text from the clipboard.
What does it produce?
A Summary tab (a plain-language AI summary plus structured Key Highlights) and a Visualization tab with four linked views — a case timeline, an IRAC logic diagram, a legal concept map, and an entity-relationship graph. You can export the result to PDF.
What if it labels the document type wrong?
It auto-detects the type (Court Decision, Contract, Court Order, Complaint, Answer, Motion, Memorandum) and shows it as a label you can change from a dropdown — the page prompts you to correct it if it looks off.
What jurisdiction is it for?
Philippine law — it is designed to read Philippine legal documents.
Is the output legal advice?
No. It is a research assistant, not legal advice, and the page says so: "AI-generated content for reference only. Always verify with official documents."