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Tim Fox edited this page Dec 30, 2019 · 21 revisions

Prerequisites

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

Install on Linux

Linux users:

sudo apt-get install python-dev -y
sudo apt-get install libboost-python-dev -y
sudo apt-get install libgsf-1-dev -y
sudo apt install wkhtmltopdf libpst 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.
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