> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://icij.gitbook.io/datashare/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://icij.gitbook.io/datashare/local-mode/find-entities.md).
# Find entities
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Prerequisite: Your documents must be added to Datashare. Check how for [Mac](/datashare/local-mode/install-datashare-on-mac/add-documents-to-datashare-on-mac.md), [Windows](/datashare/local-mode/install-datashare-on-windows/add-documents-to-datashare-on-windows.md) and [Linux](/datashare/local-mode/install-datashare-on-linux/add-documents-to-datashare-on-linux.md).
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In the **menu**, in '**Tasks**', click '**Entities'**
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In the menu or on the top right, click the '**Plus**' button or on the page, click '**Find entities**':
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Select your **options**
* Select a **project** where you want to find entities
* Choose between finding names of people, organizations and locations or finding email addresses. You cannot do both simultaneously, you need to do one after the other, no matter the order.
* Choose a **Natural Language Processing model**, that is to say the software which will run the entity recognition. If you want to add more models, you can check [how to add them as extensions](/datashare/local-mode/plugins-and-extensions.md).
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In '**Tasks**' > '**Entities**', watch the **progress** of your entity recognition:
Once they are done, you can click '**Delete done tasks**' to stop displaying tasks that are completed.
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Explore your **entities** in the documents
You can now start searching your entities in the documents without having to wait for all tasks to be done.
In the menu, click '**Search'** > **'Documents'** and open the **'Entities' tab** of your documents or use the **Entities filters**.
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