InvestigateIX is a live-system for search empowering investigative journalists to setup an own open-source search engine on an encrypted external device to search in a large amount of documents, files and data for searching, overview, analysis, exploration, document discovery, text mining and document mining

• your own internal search engine
• search in many documents and files (full text search, explorative search and interactive filters)
• analyze documents (document mining and text mining, aggregated overviews, viewer, wordlists and visualizations with wordclouds and trend charts)
• structure investigations (semantic wiki for tagging documents, annotations and structured notes and an user interface for managing named entities like persons, organzations, locations or concepts)
• automatic import of many different document formats:
• automatic text recognition (OCR) for images and graphical files like JPG or PNG, i.e. for scanned or photographed documents or for scans inside PDF
• secure: on an encrypted external device
• unhosted: works offline without need of internet or spying cloud services
• empowering journalists and activists: without need for an admin or computer specialist
  • easy to setup
  • easy to use
  • cheep to use: one old standard pc or laptop or even a netbook is enough
• free open source software based on Debian GNU/Linux (Operating system), Apache Solr (Enterprise Search), Open Semantic Search (search engine and user interface) and Cryptsetup for dm-crypt and LUKS (disk encryption)
• extendable: Using open standards and offering a powerfull plugin interface you can write own search tools or data enrichment plugins with a few line of code

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