Free software for your own desktop search engine for full text search, exploratory search and text analysis on Windows or Mac
Open Semantic Desktop search is free open source software for your own desktop search engine with integrated text analytics and research tools for full text search, exploratory search & text mining in large document sets, many PDF files, Word documents and many other file formats on Windows or Mac. Desktop search engine package as virtual machine for single Linux, Windows or Mac users
The free software Open Semantic Desktop Search based on Open Semantic Search is the all in one package for desktop users (including Solr search server, user interfaces, open source search tools and connectors) as virtual machine image for full text search, exploratory search, analytics and text mining in many documents on your own desktop computer or notebook on Linux, Windows or iOS (Mac). Installation and configuration
Like described in the tutorial with screenshots how to install and configure the Open Semantic Desktop Search virtual machine just import the appliance file into Virtual Box and in the settings of the virtual machine add shared folders pointing to your documents directory or directories. Starting the search engine
Start Virtual Box
Start the virtual machine "Open Semantic Desktop Search"
Search, explore and analyse
Use powerful research tools for full text search, exploration, discovery, analysis, text mining and document mining
Index documents
Indexing documents from all configured shared folders will be started automatically after starting the Desktop Search virtual machine.
You can index new documents which were added after the start of the virtual machine without need to restart:
Click or touch the menu Activities and click or touch the launcher "Index all documents for search" for all documents and subfolders in your document folder
or
For only a or some special documents or subfolder(s) choose "Index for search" in the file managers context menu of the selected folder or file
Launch the search user interface
The search interface will be started automatically. If you close the browser, you can open the search interface again:
Launch the search user interface by clicking the launcher "Search for documents" or one of the other powerful research tools
Encrypted Live-System: InvestigateIX
If the hard drive of your computer is not encrypted or you don't trust all installed software on your computer, you might want to install a separated and encrypted stand-alone live-system search environment for sensitive documents:
InvestigateIX integrates Open Semantic Desktop Search as preconfigurated search engine and desktop environment with an Linux live-system on an encrypted external device like an usb key or an external harddisk for end users with sensible data and enhanced privacy needs like investigative journalists without dedicated server or laptop and for unhosted searching. Search
Search operators
Fuzzy search
Explore and filter search results or document collections
Table view
Search by a list
Analyze & explore
Aggregated overview and interactive filters (faceted search)
Named entities (i.e. persons, organizations, locations or concepts)
Trend chart
Word cloud and list of words
Text analysis, text mining and document mining
Network analysis, relations and connections (graph visualization)
Locations & places (map)
Optical character recognition of scanned documents or text in images (OCR)
Tag & annotate
Tagging & annotation
Structure
Vocabulary & Thesaurus (names, words, topics, concepts & relations like aliases, synonyms or related terms)
Lists of names, Dictionaries, Vocabularies and Thesauri (Ontologies)
Rules and pipes (search query based automatic tagging and filtering)
Tag all results of a search query
Open Data integration (Wikidata or Wiktionary)
Automatic extraction of persons, organizations and places (Named Entity Recognition by machine learning)