Law firms and legal practices handle a variety of documents every day, from contracts and pleadings to client communications and case files. Opening them should not depend on which applications happen to be installed on the machine in front of you. Doconut.app offers an interactive way to experience Doconut’s powerful document viewer firsthand—ideal for lawyers, paralegals, and legal teams seeking a streamlined approach to document handling.

A case file open for review in the browser

Why Use Doconut.app for Legal Document Review?

Efficient Multi-Format Support: View and manage legal documents in formats such as:
- DOCX: Open Microsoft Word documents containing complex legal drafts, formatted motions, or briefs without any additional software.
- PDF: Review court filings, discovery documents, and finalized agreements, maintaining their original layout and pagination.
- RTF (Rich Text Format): Access older legal records and documents created with simpler word processors.
- EML and MSG: Open and read email correspondence, crucial for case evidence and communication tracking.
- TXT and CSV: View plain text documents and data files containing essential case information or client lists.
User-Friendly Interface: Navigate lengthy case files or multi-page contracts with ease, reducing time spent scrolling and searching. The intuitive design ensures that even the most extensive documents are manageable and readable.
Multi-Page TIFFs: Handle scanned legal documents or exhibits with multi-page TIFF files, a common format in digitized legal archives.
Nothing Is Kept: Doconut.app deletes your document when the session ends. It is not stored, indexed or shared, and there is no account for it to be attached to, because there is no sign-up.

Be clear-eyed about the boundary of that promise: while you are reading it, the file is on our server. For material under a protective order, or anything your firm's policy says cannot leave your infrastructure, the right tool is a viewer running inside your own systems — which is what the Doconut .NET SDK is for. Note also that Doconut holds no ISO 27001 or SOC 2 certification.

Key Benefits for Legal Professionals

Contract Analysis: Open an agreement and search the text it carries to find the clause you need, without the software that produced it.
Pre-Trial Document Review: Read discovery files and deposition transcripts in the browser, with no conversion step in between.
Email Evidence Examination: Open EML, MSG and EMLX files and read the message with its full header trail — From, To, Date, Message-ID and the Received lines. When the question is who sent what and when, that is the part that matters, and a mail client will not show it without being asked.
Archive Review: Open RTFs and other older formats from legacy matters.

What it will not do, which matters more in this field than most. There is no annotation and no markup on the free viewer: you cannot highlight, comment or redact, and nothing you do changes the file. There is no shared review session and no way to send feedback to a colleague through it. And there is no OCR — a scan with no text layer opens and displays perfectly, but searching it finds nothing, because there are no characters in the file to find. For a digitised archive, whether a document is searchable was decided by the scanner, not by us.

Annotation and search do exist as licensed plugins for the .NET SDK, if the firm's own case system is where this belongs.

Try Before You Buy

Doconut.app is your first step to experiencing how Doconut .NET Library can enhance your legal team’s document workflow. With Doconut.app, you can test its compatibility and efficiency by uploading and reviewing real-world legal documents. Once you’ve experienced how it handles your own files, you’ll understand why Doconut .NET Library is an essential tool for modern law practices.

Formats You Can Review on Doconut.app, with the limit for each:

Word Documents (DOC, DOCX, ODT, RTF) — up to 15 MB. Read agreements, memos and reports.
PDFs — up to 25 MB. Court filings, legal research and scans.
Emails (EML, MSG, EMLX) — up to 10 MB, headers included.
Multi-Page TIFFs — up to 25 MB. Scanned exhibits, page by page.
Spreadsheets (XLS, XLSX, CSV) — up to 20 MB, for exhibit schedules and client lists.
Plain Text (TXT) — up to 5 MB.

Just Open a File

There is no trial to start, because there is nothing to buy. Doconut.app is free, permanently, with no account and no expiry — so "try before you buy" is the wrong frame: use it as long as it is useful.

Where a purchase does exist is the other direction. If your case management system should open these files itself, rather than sending staff to a website, that is the Doconut .NET SDK, and its trial licence is free.

Test it with a real exhibit rather than a clean sample — a 40-page scanned TIFF from a 1990s archive tells you far more than a freshly exported PDF.