Datashare
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  • About Datashare
  • Ask for help
  • Concepts
    • Running modes
    • CLI stages
  • About ICIJ
  • Github
  • 💻On your computer
    • About the local mode
    • Install on Mac
      • Start Datashare
      • Add documents to Datashare
    • Install on Windows
      • Start Datashare
      • Add documents to Datashare
    • Install on Linux
      • Start Datashare
      • Add documents to Datashare
    • Install with Docker
    • Add documents
    • Add more languages
    • Install plugins and extensions
    • Neo4j
      • Install Neo4j plugin
      • Create and update Neo4j graph
  • 🌐On your server
    • About the server mode
    • Install with Docker
    • Add documents from the CLI
    • Add entities from the CLI
    • Authentication providers
      • OAuth2
      • Basic with a database
      • Basic with Redis
      • Dummy
    • Neo4j
      • Install Neo4j plugin
      • Create and update Neo4j graph
    • Performance considerations
  • ⚡Usage
    • Search documents
    • Search documents in batch
    • Search with operators / Regex
    • Filter documents
    • Sort documents
    • Explore a document
    • Star documents
    • Tag documents
    • Recommend documents
    • Keyboard shortcuts
    • Create a Neo4j graph and explore it
    • FAQ
      • General
        • Can I use Datashare with no internet connection?
        • Can I download a document from Datashare?
        • Can I remove document(s) from Datashare?
        • Do you recommend OS or machines for large corpuses?
        • Can I use an external drive as data source?
        • How can we use Datashare on a collaborative mode on a server?
        • How can I contact ICIJ for help, bug reporting or suggestions?
        • Why results from a simple search and a batch search can be slightly different?
        • How can I uninstall Datashare?
        • Advanced: how can I do bulk actions with Tarentula?
        • What should I do if I get more than 10,000 results?
        • How to run Neo4j?
      • Definitions
        • What is a named entity?
        • What are NLP pipelines?
        • What is fuzziness?
        • What are proximity searches?
      • Common errors
        • 'Your search query is wrong.' What should I do?
        • Searching with double quotes doesn't work
        • List of common errors leading to "failure" in Batch Searches
        • What if Datashare says 'No documents found'?
        • Nothing works, everything crashes. What can I do?
        • What if tasks are 'running' but not completing?
        • 'You are not allowed to use Docker, you must be in the "docker-users" group'. What should I do?
        • What if a 'Preview' of my documents is 'not available'?
        • What do I do if Datashare opens a blank screen in my browser?
        • I see people, organizations and locations in the filters but not in the documents
        • What does 'Windows named pipe error' mean?
        • Datashare doesn't open. What should I do?
        • I upgraded to version 9 of Datashare and it fails.
  • 🤓Developers
    • How to contribute
    • Backend
      • API
      • API (deprecated)
      • Database
    • Frontend
      • JSDoc
      • Plugin hooks
      • Insight widgets
      • Vue app
        • Components
          • Api
          • AppliedSearchFilters
          • AppliedSearchFiltersItem
          • AppNav
          • AppSidebar
          • BatchDownloadActions
          • BatchSearchActions
          • BatchSearchClearFilters
          • BatchSearchCopyForm
          • BatchSearchFilterDate
          • BatchSearchFilterQuery
          • BatchSearchForm
          • BatchSearchResultsDetails
          • BatchSearchResultsFilters
          • BatchSearchResultsTable
          • BatchSearchStatus
          • BatchSearchTable
          • ColumnChartPicker
          • ColumnFilter
          • ColumnFilterBadge
          • ColumnFilterDropdown
          • ContentTypeBadge
          • Document
            • DocumentNavbar
            • DocumentNotes
            • DocumentTabDetails
            • DocumentTabExtractedText
            • DocumentTabNamedEntities
            • DocumentTabPreview
            • Viewers
              • AudioViewer
              • ImageViewer
              • JsonViewer
              • LegacySpreadsheetViewer
              • PaginatedViewer
              • SpreadsheetViewer
              • TiffViewer
              • VideoViewer
          • DocumentActions
          • DocumentAttachments
          • DocumentContent
          • DocumentContentSlice
          • DocumentContentSlicePlaceholder
          • DocumentContentSlices
          • DocumentGlobalSearchTermsTags
          • DocumentInModal
          • DocumentLocalSearchInput
          • DocumentSlicedName
          • DocumentTagsForm
          • DocumentThread
          • DocumentThumbnail
          • DocumentTranslatedContent
          • DocumentTypeCard
          • EllipseStatus
          • EmailString
          • Extensions
          • ExtractingForm
          • ExtractingFormOcrControl
          • ExtractingLanguageFormControl
          • Filter
            • FilterBoilerplate
            • FilterFooter
            • FilterSearch
            • FilterSortByDropdown
            • Types
              • FilterAbstract
              • FilterDate
              • FilterDateRange
              • FilterNamedEntity
              • FilterPath
              • FilterProject
              • FilterRecommendedBy
              • FilterStarred
              • FilterText
          • FiltersPanel
          • FindNamedEntitiesForm
          • Hook
          • InlineDirectoryPicker
          • JsonFormatter
          • LocalesMenu
          • MountedDataLocation
          • NamedEntityInContext
          • PageHeader
          • PageIcon
          • Pagination
          • Plugins
          • ProjectCards
          • ProjectForm
          • ProjectLink
          • ProjectSelector
          • ProjectThumbnail
          • QuickItemNav
          • ResetFiltersButton
          • RouterLinkPopup
          • ScrollTracker
          • SearchBar
          • SearchBarInput
          • SearchBarInputDropdown
          • SearchBarInputDropdownForField
          • SearchBarInputDropdownForProjects
          • SearchDocumentNavbar
          • SearchFormControl
          • SearchLayoutSelector
          • SearchResults
          • SearchResultsGrid
          • SearchResultsHeader
          • SearchResultsList
          • SearchResultsListLink
          • SearchResultsTable
          • ServerSettings
          • ShortkeysModal
          • TaskItemStatus
          • TasksList
          • TreeBreadcrumb
          • TreeView
          • UserDisplay
          • UserHistorySaveSearchForm
          • VersionNumber
          • Widget
            • WidgetDiskUsage
            • WidgetDocumentsByCreationDate
            • WidgetDocumentsByCreationDateByPath
            • WidgetDuplicates
            • WidgetEmpty
            • WidgetEntities
            • WidgetFieldFacets
            • WidgetFileBarometer
            • WidgetListGroup
            • WidgetNames
            • WidgetNested
            • WidgetProject
            • WidgetRecommendedBy
            • WidgetSearchBar
            • WidgetText
            • WidgetTreeMap
        • Pages
          • App
          • DocumentModal
          • DocumentStandalone
          • DocumentView
          • Error
          • Landing
          • Login
          • Project
          • ProjectList
          • ProjectNew
          • ProjectView
          • ProjectViewAddDocuments
          • ProjectViewEdit
          • ProjectViewFindNamedEntities
          • ProjectViewInsights
          • Search
          • Settings
          • TaskAnalysis
          • TaskAnalysisList
          • TaskBatchDownload
          • TaskBatchDownloadList
          • TaskBatchSearch
          • TaskBatchSearchList
          • TaskBatchSearchNew
          • TaskBatchSearchView
          • TaskBatchSearchViewResults
          • Tasks
          • UserHistory
          • UserHistoryDocumentList
          • UserHistorySavedSearchList
    • Introduction to Tarentula
    • Index operations with Playground
    • Write extensions
    • Write plugins
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  1. On your computer

Install on Windows

It will help you set up the software on your computer.

Last updated 10 months ago

Standard (Windows 7 Service Pack 2 or newer version)

Uninstall any prior standard version

Before we start, please uninstall any prior standard version of Datashare if you had already installed it. You can follow these steps:

Download Datashare

Go to , scroll down and click 'Download for free'.

The file "datashare-X.Y.Z.exe" is now downloaded. Double click on the name of the file in order to execute it.

Allow Datashare to install

As Datashare is not signed, this popup asks for your permission. Don't click 'Don't run' but click 'More info':

Click 'Run anyway':

It asks if you want to allow the app to make changes to your device. Click 'Yes':

Install Datashare

On the Installer Wizard, as you need to download and install OpenJDK11 if it is not installed on your device, click 'Install':

The following windows with progress bars will be displayed:

Choose a language and click 'OK':

Install Tesseract OCR

To install Tesseract OCR, click the following buttons on the Installer Wizard's windows:

Untick 'Show README' and click 'Finish':

Finally, click "Close" to close the installer of TesseractOCR.

Install Datashare.jar

It now downloads the back end and the front end, Datashare.jar:

When it is finished, click 'Close':

You can now !

💻
start Datashare
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