Datashare provides a folder to use to collect documents on your computer to index in Datashare.
You can find a folder called 'Datashare' in your home directory.
Move the documents you want to add to Datashare into this folder.
Open Datashare to extract text and eventually find people, organizations and locations in your documents.
You can now analyze your documents.
Find the application on your computer and run it locally on your browser.
Start Datashare by launching it from the command-line:
Datashare should now automatically open in your default internet browser. If it doesn’t, type "localhost:8080" in your browser. Datashare must be accessed from your internet browser (Firefox, Chome, etc), even though it works offline without Internet connection (see: Can I use Datashare with no internet connection?).
It's now time to add documents to Datashare.
Install Datashare will help you set up the software on your computer.
Currently, only a .deb package for Debian/Ubuntu is provided.
If you want to run it with another Linux distribution, you can download the latest version of the Datashare jar here : https://github.com/ICIJ/datashare/releases/latest
And adapt the following launch script : https://github.com/ICIJ/datashare/blob/master/datashare-dist/src/main/deb/bin/datashare to your environment.
Go to datashare.icij.org, scroll down and click 'Download .deb'
Save the Debian package as a file
You can now start Datashare!
