Purpose of the project

Purpose of the project

The purpose of the FreeEed - Free Electronic Evidence Discovery Project - is to create a correctly architected system for eDiscovery, one that will be scalable to process and store any amounts of electronic information, and flexible enough to accommodate disparate sources of data collection, both now and in the future.

FreeEed embodies years of experience, but it also incorporates hundreds of man-years of developers of other open-source projects that FreeEed relies on. FreeEed achieves top quality by using best practices for Big Data software development.

FreeEed software is intended to process any number of electronic documents, extract metadata and text, and cull them based on keywords. It produces a "load file" with metadata, and an output zip file, which contains all of the text extracted from each document, as well as original (or "native") files.

The two most important things about FreeEed:

1 - It can process data, make it searchable, and output results as a CSV file, with native documents in a zip file. No MS Office install is needed, although a powerful Windows/Mac/Linux machine is recommended.

2 - It is designed to be scalable. It every core that you have, up to 132 cores on the largest AWS instanced, reaching up to 1 TB per hour processing speed. It can be used in the cloud.