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Cloud, enterprise and self-hosted AI: what deployment labels mean
Plain-English explanation of deployment labels and their practical consequences for confidentiality, cost, control and support.
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BentoPDF
Self-hosted Docker-based PDF tool. Running locally. No-login, offline private PDF processing.
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CoCounsel (Thomson Reuters)
Established product legal AI for research, contract review, and deposition prep. Backed by Westlaw's authoritative case law database with agentic AI capabilities.
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DeepSeek
Relevant open-source model suite handling complex legal reasoning, contract analysis, and multi-language document summaries. Extremely popular for private, locally hostable deployment.
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Harvey AI
Designed for custom LLM platform backed by OpenAI, designed for enterprise law firms and corporate legal departments.
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Llama model family / Meta AI
Meta's open-source Llama model engine powers many private, self-hosted legal AI setups. Law firms use it to build fully on-premise document review tools ensuring zero data leaves the firm.
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Mistral / Le Chat
Europe's flagship AI model. Known for European hosting and compliance options may be available depending on plan and configuration and multi-language contract processing (especially French, German, and Spanish). Free web app and open weights.
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OCRmyPDF
Command-line tool that adds a searchable OCR text layer to scanned PDFs. Batch processing. Uses Tesseract. Open source and cross-platform.
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Specialist open legal models
Free, fine-tuned legal LLMs trained exclusively on legal texts, court decisions, and briefs. Law firm IT teams can download and deploy them locally for free.
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Stirling PDF
Self-hosted Docker-based PDF toolkit running locally. Merge, split, convert, OCR, compress, sign, and more — all offline and private. No data leaves your server.