Aleph: A suite of data analysis tools for investigators
I trialed Aleph recently and was impressed by its progress against an ambitious goal. My impressions as a user were as follows:1. Aleph is excellent out-of-the-box for its– OCR, via Tesseract or Google’s Vision API– Full text search, via Elasticsearch– Browser based UI, via React2. Aleph does a okay job but has room for improvement with– Entity extraction– Language detectionwhere “okay” means it’s accurate enough to be useful for filtering by names, emails, languages, etc., but you’ll probably encounter occasional errors.I also noticed search latency in my deployment and would love to try the Elasticsearch tips from the HN thread last week [1]. This latency does not appear in the production deployment by the Aleph team.[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22396918Again, props to the Aleph team for their success so far.