{{Infobox company
, name = ZyLAB
, type = Private
, foundation = 1983
, location =
McLean, Virginia
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Amsterdam
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, key_people = Dennis van der Veeke (President and CEO) Johannes C. Scholtes (Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer){{cite web, url=https://www.zylab.com/en/company/executive-team, publisher=ZyLAB, access-date=23 January 2019, title=Executive Team
, num_employees = 140
, industry = Software
, homepage www.zylab.com
ZyLAB is a developer of software for
e-discovery
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, information risk management, email management, records, contract, and document management, knowledge management, and workflow. The company is headquartered in
McLean, Virginia
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, and in
Amsterdam
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, Netherlands.
History
In 1983 ZyLAB began providing a
full-text
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search program for electronic files stored in IBM-compatible PCs called ZyINDEX. In 1991, ZyLAB integrated ZyINDEX with an
optical character recognition
Optical character recognition or optical character reader (OCR) is the electronics, electronic or machine, mechanical conversion of images of typed, handwritten or printed text into machine-encoded text, whether from a scanned document, a photo ...
program called ZyIMAGE. In 1998, the company developed support to full-text search email, including attachments.
In 2000, the company adopted the
XML
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standard and created a full content management and records management system based on it.
In 2010, ZyLAB Information Management Platform was released, an integrated solution to address e-Discovery and information management problems.
In 2023 ZyLAB was purchased by Reveal Data.
InformationWeek
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The New York Times
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