8 GB RAM or more and sufficient hard drive space for eDiscovery are recommended
Single-workstation:
- FreeEed works in Windows, Mac or Linux.
- Java 7 or later needs to be installed
- MS Office/Outlook are not needed
- For image creation (PDF) you need OpenOffice or OfficeLibre
- On Linux, you need to install utilities: readpst, tesseract, etc. FreeEed will tell you which utilities you need if you are missing any, and how to install them.
Install on MacOS:
First allow apps downloaded “from anywhere:”
sudo spctl --master-disable
MacOS users should install the following:
brew install libpst # Libpst /readpst
brew cask install libreoffice #Libreoffice install
brew cask install wkhtmltopdf
brew install tesseract
Some MacOS users have reported that they had to disable ElasticSearch Machine Learning in order to circumvent an exception related to that functionality. If (and only if) that happens, then disable ElasticSearch Machine Learning altogether:
vi config/elasticsearch.yml
Add the following line to the bottom of the file:
xpack.ml.enabled : false
Install on Linux
Linux users:
sudo apt-get install pst-utils
sudo apt install wkhtmltopdf tesseract -y
Virtual Machine:
- You can run FreeEed VM in VirtualBox
Amazon Cloud:
- You can run the same FreeEed VM as a single workstation on Amazon. Use appropriate geographically located center depending on where you are and what your privacy regulations require.
- Hadoop cluster processing on Amazon. FreeEed manages your clusters for you.