Find the application on your computer and run it locally in your browser.
Open the Windows main menu at the left of the bar at the bottom of your computer screen and click on 'Datashare'. (The numbers after 'Datashare' just indicate which version of Datashare you installed.)
A window called 'Terminal' will have opened, showing the progress of opening Datashare. Do not close this black window as long as you use Datashare.
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: ).
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Add documents to Datashare
Datashare provides a folder to collect documents on your computer to index in Datashare.
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Add documents in 'Datashare Data' folder
When you open your desktop in Windows on your computer, you will see a folder called 'Datashare Data'.
Move or copy and paste the documents you want to add to Datashare to this folder:
2
Launch Datashare
You will find it in your main menu:
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In the menu, in 'Tasks', open 'Documents'
Expand the menu on the left:
In 'Tasks', open 'Documents':
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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.
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Watch the progress of your document addition
Two extraction tasks are now running:
The first is the
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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.
