Prerequisites

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 8 or later needs to be installed. Amazon Coretto is recommended.
• 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 update
sudo apt install pst-utils
sudo apt install wkhtmltopdf 
sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr  
sudo apt install libreoffice

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.