Find the application on your computer and have it running 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: Can I use Datashare with no internet connection?).
It's now time to add documents to Datashare.
It will help you set up the software on your computer.
Before we start, please uninstall any prior standard version of Datashare if you had already installed it. You can follow these steps: https://www.laptopmag.com/articles/uninstall-programs-windows-10
Go to datashare.icij.org, scroll down and click 'Download for free'.
The file "datashare-X.Y.Z.exe" is now downloaded. Double click on the name of the file in order to execute it.
As Datashare is not signed, this popup asks for your permission. Don't click 'Don't run' but click 'More info':
Click 'Run anyway':
It asks if you want to allow the app to make changes to your device. Click 'Yes':
On the Installer Wizard, as you need to download and install OpenJDK11 if it is not installed on your device, click 'Install':
The following windows with progress bars will be displayed:
Choose a language and click 'OK':
To install Tesseract OCR, click the following buttons on the Installer Wizard's windows:
Untick 'Show README' and click 'Finish':
Finally, click "Close" to close the installer of TesseractOCR.
It now downloads the back end and the front end, Datashare.jar:
When it is finished, click 'Close':
You can now start Datashare!
Datashare provides a folder to use to collect documents on your computer to index in Datashare.
When you open your desktop, you will see a folder called 'Datashare Data'. Move or copy and paste the documents you want to add to Datashare to this folder:
Now open Datashare, which you will find in your main menu (see above: 'Open Datashare')
Once Datashare has opened, click on 'Analyze documents' on the top navigation bar in Datashare:
You're now ready to analyze your documents in Datashare.
