Datashare provides a folder to collect documents on your computer to index in Datashare.
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Add documents to your 'Datashare' folder
You can find a folder called 'Datashare' in your home directory.
Move the documents you want to add to Datashare into this folder.
2
Launch Datashare
Launch Datashare and see the interface opening in your default browser.
3
In the menu, in 'Tasks', open 'Documents'
Expand the menu on the left:
In 'Tasks', open 'Documents':
4
Choose your options
Select the project in Datashare where you want to add your documents. The Default project, which is automatically created, is selected by default.
5
Watch the progress of your document addition
Two extraction tasks are now running:
The first is the
You can now .
On the top right, click the 'Plus' button:
Select the folder or sub-folder on your computer in your 'Datashare' directory containing the documents you want to add. The entire 'Datashare' directory will be added by default.
Choose the language of your documents if you don't want Datashare to guess it automatically.
Note: If you choose to also extract text from images (at the next option), you might need to install the appropriate language package on your system. Datashare will tell you if the language package is missing. Refer to the documentation to know .
Extract text from images/PDFs with Optical Character Recognition (OCR). Be aware the indexing can take up to 10 times longer.
Skip already indexed documents if you'd like.
Click 'Add'
scanning
of your Datashare folder - it sees if there are documents to analyze. It is called 'ScanTask'.
The second is the indexing of these files. It is called 'IndexTask'.
Note: It is not possible to '' while these two tasks are still running. You won't have the entities (names of people, organizations, locations and e-mail addresses) yet. To get these, once your document addition is finished, please follow the steps to '.
But you can start searching in your documents without having to wait for all tasks to be done.
