Find entities

This page helps you find entities (people, organizations, locations, e-mail addresses) in your documents.

Prerequisite: Your documents must be added to Datashare. Check how for Mac, Windows and Linux.

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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.

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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.