Upload a PDF charge document and Acquit extracts each charge with its number, title and details.
- Upload a PDF by dragging it onto the upload zone or clicking to browse.
- Wait while Acquit identifies the document type and extracts the charges.
- Review the extracted charges in the stepper wizard.
Acquit matches each charge against the criminal offence database to show penalty and eligibility information.
Supported documents
QP9 (Court Brief), Charge List, Bench Charge Sheet, Bail Undertaking, Index to Brief, Indictment, and Verdict & Judgment Record (VJR). Scanned PDFs are read with AI-powered OCR; unrecognised documents fall back to AI extraction automatically. OCR typos in the particulars (like unlawfullv for unlawfully) are repaired automatically before review, keeping names, dates and legal phrasing exact.
Drug charges
For Drugs Misuse charges, see How does charge extraction handle drug charges?
Checks in the review step
Court briefs print a “Total no. charges for defendant” figure. If Acquit reads a different number, the review step warns you: the source document usually mislabelled or duplicated a charge number. Acquit never silently drops a charge; delete a genuine duplicate, or keep all if they are real.
When several charges are the same offence, pick it once and apply to all. Legislation names and file-number (MAG) formats are normalised, so charges match the offence database and group with what’s already on the client.
File numbers and case file IDs
The final step lists any court file numbers from the client’s most recent QLD Courts lookup. Tick one or more: charges save to the first ticked file, and the rest become empty files to move charges into later. If no lookup has run, a Look up in QLD Courts button runs one there (the client needs a date of birth).
A police case file ID (a CO number, top right of a QP9) is stored with each charge. It shows as a copyable tag on the charge row and under Particulars in the detail drawer, and each file’s … menu has a Copy Case File ID action. Fix a missed or misread ID in the charge’s Edit Charge drawer.