Master's Thesis Benedikt Labrenz

A study of requirements and tools for document automation

Abstract

Many legal documents are created manually in time- and resource-intensive process that is not very efficient. Document automation aims to reduce the manual effort during the generation of documents by automatically assembling documents from a previously defined template. Legal documents are usually highly structured and standardized opening
up a large potential to apply document automation. This survey analyzes major players in the market of document automation tools to make them more comparable for practitioners and to provide tool vendors with an overview of requirements for a document automation tool in the legal domain.