https://datashare.icij.org/

Datashare's user guide can be found here: https://icij.gitbook.io/datashare/

Datashare is a free open-source desktop application developed by non-profit International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ).

Datashare allows investigative journalists to:

• access all their documents in one place locally on their computer while securing them from potential third-party interferences
• search pdfs, images, texts, spreadsheets, slides and any files, simultaneously
• automatically detect and filter by people, organizations and locations

You can download the script at datashare.icij.org.

To access web GUI, go in your documents folder and launch path/to/datashare.sh then connect datashare on http://localhost:8080

You can use the datashare docker container only for HTTP exposed name finding API.

Just run :

docker run -ti -p 8080:8080 -v /path/to/dist/:/home/datashare/dist icij/datashare:0.10 -m NER

A bit of explanation :

• -w tells datashare to run the webserver. It is launched on 8080 that's why the port is mapped for docker
• -m NER runs datashare without index at all on a stateless mode
• -v /path/to/dist:/home/datashare/dist maps the directory where the NLP models will be read (and downloaded if they don't exist)

Then query with curl the server with :

curl -i localhost:8080/ner/findNames/CORENLP --data-binary @path/to/a/file.txt

The last path part (CORENLP) is the framework. You can choose it among CORENLP, IXAPIPE, MITIE or OPENNLP.

Implementations

• TikaDocument from ICIJ/extract

  Apache Tika v1.18 (Apache Licence v2.0)

  with Tesseract v4.0 alpha

Support

Tika File Formats

Implementations

• org.icij.datashare.text.nlp.corenlp.CorenlpPipeline

  Stanford CoreNLP v3.8.0, (Conditional Random Fields), Composite GPL v3+

• org.icij.datashare.text.nlp.ixapipe.IxapipePipeline

  Ixa Pipes Nerc v1.6.1, (Perceptron), Apache Licence v2.0

• org.icij.datashare.text.nlp.mitie.MitiePipeline

  MIT Information Extraction v0.8, (Structural Support Vector Machines), Boost Software License v1.0

• org.icij.datashare.text.nlp.opennlp.OpennlpPipeline

  Apache OpenNLP v1.6.0, (Maximum Entropy), Apache Licence v2.0

Natural Language Processing Stages Support

Named Entity Recognition Language Support

Named Entity Categories Support

Parts-of-Speech Language Support

Implementations

• org.icij.datashare.text.indexing.elasticsearch.ElasticsearchIndexer

  Elasticsearch v6.1.0, Apache Licence v2.0

Requires JDK 8, Maven 3

From datashare root directory, type: mvn package

Datashare is released under the GNU Affero General Public License

We welcome feedback as well as contributions!

For any bug, question, comment or (pull) request,

please contact us at [email protected]