Find the application on your computer and run it locally on your browser.
Once Datashare is installed, go to "Finder", then "Applications", and double-click on "Datashare".
A Terminal window called 'Datashare.command' opens and describes the technical operations going on during the opening.
Keep this Terminal window open as long as you use Datashare.
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 FAQ: Can I use Datashare with no internet connection?).
You can now add documents to Datashare.
It will help you set up and install Datashare on your computer.
This guide will explain to you how to install Datashare on Mac. The installer will take care of checking your system have all the dependencies to run Datashare. Because this software use Apache Tesseract (to perform Optical Character Recognition) and Mac doesn't support them out-of-box, heavy dependencies must be downloaded. If your system have none of those dependencies, the first installation of Datashare can take up to 30 minutes.
The installer will setup:
Xcode Command Line Tools (if neither XCode or Xcode Command Line Tools are installed)
MacPorts (if neither Homebrew or MacPorts are installed)
Apache Tesseract with MacPorts or Homenrew
Java JRE 17
Datashare executable
Note: previous versions of this document refered to a "Docker Installer". We do not provide this installer anymore but Datashare is still published on the Docker Hub and supported with Docker.
Go to datashare.icij.org, scroll down and click 'Download for Mac'.
Go to your "Downloads" directory in Finder and double-click "datashare-X.Y.Z.pkg":
Click 'Continue', 'Install', enter your password and 'Install Software':
The installation begins. You see a progress bar. It stays a long time on "Running package scripts" because it is installing XCode Command Line Tools, MacPort, Tesseract OCR, Java Runtime Environment and finally Datashare.
You can see what it actually does by typing command+L, it will open a window which logs every action made.
In the end, you should see this screen:
You can now start Datashare !
Datashare provides a folder to use to collect documents on your computer to index in Datashare.
Open your Mac's 'Finder' by clicking on the blue smiling icon in your Mac's 'Dock':
On the menu bar at the top of your computer, click 'Go'. Click on 'Home' (the house icon).
You will see a folder called 'Datashare':
If you want to quickly access it in the future, you can drag and drop it in 'Favorites' on the left of this window:
Copy or place the documents you want to have in Datashare in this Datashare folder.
Open your Applications. You should see Datashare. Double click on it:
Datashare opens in your default internet browser. Click 'Tasks':
Click the 3rd tab 'Analyze your documents':
You can now analyze your documents in Datashare.
