Project Description

This project aimed to created a searching tool that would help forensic examiners be able to search efficiently through data.

Project Setup Instructions

This project makes use of a virtual environment.

To activate the virtual environment, ensure you are in the COS_783_Project directory.

Windows

To activate the virtual environment on Windows, type the following command in the command prompt:

.\KeywordSearcher\Scripts\activate

MacOS or Linux

To activate the virtual environment on MacOS or Linux, use the following command in the terminal:

source KeywordSearcher/bin/activate

To install necessary packages, in the COS_783_Project directory, run the following command:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Additionally run the following command:

python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm

When running project for first time make sure to uncomment line 3 in textPreprocessor.py so that it downloads wordnet. Then comment it out as you won't need to download it again on future runs

Please follow these instructions to set up and configure your project environment.

To deactivate your virtual environment use the command "deactivate"