WHAT'S FreeEed?
FreeEED stands for Free Electronic Evidence Discovery, a cross-platform open source application to process mail stores and native files. It extracts text and metadata and has OCR capabilities. FreeEED is intended for use in data processing for eDiscovery and legal review, as an engine for enterprise search, or as a tool in a forensic investigator’s toolkit. It runs on MacOS, Windows and Linux.
SCALING
Scaling is an especially important aspect of FreeEed. A new super-fast processing engine is in the works.
HOW IT WORKS?
The input data is staged by zipping it in archives of a set size. Then in processing each file is
read from the archive, assigned unique ID, and processed with Tika, which extracts text and
metadata. Metadata, text and the file itself are delivered as processed results.
The primary building blocks of the system are Tika, Lucene, SOLR.
INDEXING
The companion application, FreeEed Review, offers document review.
It is integrated with SOLR so that users get the advantage of the SOLR open source ecosystem.
OUTPUT
Metadata results are output as a CSV file, while the native files and the extracted text are stored in a zip file(s). The end results can be used for culling and producing native files for legal review You can use FreeEedUI for review or load it into Concordance.
With the compilation and professional support available for enterprise use, FreeEed brings high performance, scalability and reliability to data processing at a fraction of the cost of proprietary products.
SUPPORTED INPUT FILE FORMATS
- Office and other formats (over 1,400 formats)
- PST processing
- OST processing
- Blockchain
OTHER CAPABILITIES
- Text extraction
- Data culling
- Native/Text/Metadata results delivery
- Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
- Imaging (PDF creation)
- Instant search
- Deduplication (configurable for emails)
- Text Analytics
- Social media analytics