Convert Legal Contract to Avro

Legal contracts are agreements between two or more parties that spell out specific terms and conditions. Our system can pull structured data from various types of legal contracts whether they are PDFs or scanned documents.

We can extract these main parts:

• Parties involved and their roles
• Start date and end date
• Contract type
• Key terms and clauses
• Governing law
• Signatures and dates

This is really helpful for:

• Managing and analyzing contracts
• Following legal rules and assessing risks
• Due diligence processes
• Automating contract review and comparison

By pulling data from legal contracts, you can make contract management easier, quickly find key terms and obligations, and easily add contract information to legal and business management systems.

Avro is a row-based data serialization system developed within Apache's Hadoop project. It provides rich data structures and a compact, fast binary data format.

Technical Details

Avro uses JSON for defining data schemas, which are stored with the data. This enables schema evolution while maintaining compatibility. The data itself is stored in a compact binary format.

Advantages

• Compact binary serialization
• Schema definition included with the data
• Support for schema evolution
• Dynamic typing and code generation

Limitations

• Not human-readable without special tools
• Less widely supported than formats like JSON or CSV
• More complex to implement than simpler formats
• Less efficient for columnar queries than Parquet