Datashare on Ubuntu 24.04

Azure Applications

Datashare, the open source document analysis and search engine from the ICIJ: index a document collection, OCR and extract text, then run full text search and explore what you find.

Base
Hardened build
minimal ports, security patches applied at build time
Access
Unique credentials
generated on first boot, readable only by root
Verified
Boots working
services pass a health gate before release
Support
24/7, 365 days
by email and live chat, 24 hour response SLA

Overview

Datashare is an open source, self hosted search engine for documents built by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. It extracts text from files (including OCR of scans and PDFs), indexes everything into Elasticsearch, and provides a clean web interface to search the full text and explore a large document collection.

Why the cloudimg image

The cloudimg image ships Datashare assembled with Elasticsearch and hardened: Elasticsearch and the backend bind to loopback, nginx is the only public listener, and every instance mints its own web password and TLS certificate on first boot. A sample document set is pre indexed so search works immediately. Backed by a paired deployment guide and 24/7 cloudimg support.

Common uses

  • Investigative document search
  • OCR and full text indexing
  • Exploring a document collection

See it running

Real screenshots taken while testing this image against its deployment guide.

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