Explore a document

Explore the document's data through different tabs.

See a document in full-screen view

Open a document in 'Search' > 'Documents' > one document and click the icon with in and out arrows (this applies to the List layout while in Grid and Table layout, the documents always open in full-screen view):

Screenshot of Datashare's search in document page in List view with a document opened and its in out icon on the top right highlighted

You now see the document in full screen view and can go to the next document in your results by using the pagination carousel on the top of the screen:

Screenshot of Datashare's document full screen view with the pagination carousel on the top highlighted

Search in a document

  • Open a document in 'Search' > 'Documents' > one document

  • Stay on the first tab called 'Text'. This tab shows the text as extracted from your document by Datashare.

  • Click on the search bar or press Command (⌘) / Control + F

  • Type the terms you're searching for

  • Press ENTER to go from one occurrence to the next one

  • Presse SHIFT + ENTER to go from one occurrence to the previous one

To see all the keyboard shortcuts in Datashare, please read 'Use keyboard shortcuts'.

Screenshot of Datashare's page to search documents in List view with a document open on the 'Text' tab and the search bar to search within the document highlighted

See original document

Go to the 'View' tab to see the original document.

Note: this visualization of the document is available only for some file types: images, PDF, CSV, xlsx and tiff but not other file types like Word documents or e-mails for instance.

Screenshot of Datashare's page to search documents in List view with a document open on the 'View' tab which is highlighted

Search for attachments and documents in the same folder

Attachments are called 'children documents' in Datashare.

Go to the 'Metadata' tab and click on 'X documents in the same folder' or 'Y children documents':

Screenshot of Datashare's page to search documents in List view with a document open on the 'Metadata' tab and the dropdowns 'X documents in the same folder' and 'Y children documents' highlighted

You see the list of documents. To open all the documents in the same folder or all the children documents, click 'Search all' below. There is no 'Search all' button if there is no documents, as for the children documents below:

Screenshot of Datashare's page to search documents in List view with a document open on the 'Metadata' tab and the dropdowns 'X documents in the same folder' and 'Y children documents' and the 'Search all' button highlighted

Explore metadata

Go the 'Metadata' tab to explore all the properties of the document:

Screenshot of Datashare's page to search documents in List view with a document open on the 'Metadata' tab and list of metadata highlighted

If a metadata is interesting to you and you'd like to know if other documents in your project share the same metadata, click the search icon:

Screenshot of Datashare's page to search documents in List view with a document open on the 'Metadata' tab and the search buttons for one metadata with its tooltip 'Search this metadata value'highlighted

You can also copy or pin a metadata.

Entities

In the 'Entities' tab, only if you previously run tasks to Find entities in Datashare, you read the name of people, organizations, locations and e-mail adresses, along with the number of their occurrences in the document:

Screenshot of Datashare's full-screen document view on the 'Entities' tab

Hover one entity to see a popover with all their mentions in context in the document by clicking on the arrows:

Screenshot of Datashare's full-screen document view on the 'Entities' tab with one entity and its popover on the 'Mentions' tab highlighted

Go to the 'Info' tab to check how the entity was extracted:

Screenshot of Datashare's full-screen document view on the 'Entities' tab with one entity and its popover on the 'Info' tab highlighted

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