Jacques B

Hi, I know some have deployed Intella Connect in the cloud and used a dongle server (or dongle sharing software) to manage the license. Does Vound offer a server license instead that would be installed on Connect/Node servers instead? Our concern with using a dongle sharing solution is if connectivity is lost with the dongle, the application stops running. Thanks, Jacques

Thanks, I'll try that and see how it works. I'm constantly looking at what I can auto-tag for investigators to provide them with an overview of the type of data in the case. They can then use these tags to immediately start identifying content that is either not relevant, or potentially relevant. This is especially useful to tag emails from social media sites for example. An investigator may not think to look for that. But seeing it tagged will help them think of other types of emails as potentially containing relevant info (e.g., showing connection between parties by their interaction on social media generating a notification email). Jacques

This would certainly be one way to get a quick summary. In absence of that, when you select a facet (e.g., Type), you will see how many items there are of each type in your responsive list of items. Not a nice summary, but a work around pending something like you suggest. And of course, you could export the list to Excel and do that yourself in Excel. But I get that you are looking for a solution in Intella. Just a suggestion in case you had not thought of it and it's something you need for a case.

It would be great if Intella Connect implemented something like Faster Whisper (https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper) to automatically transcribe audio from audio and video files and index the transcribed content within the case. A counterpart said they are using it with Nuix where Nuix uses its API to reach out to Faster Whisper they have set up to transcribe, and feed it back to Nuix. Intella could one up them by doing it all seamlessly by allowing us to point to a Whisper server similar to pointing to Node :). Or incorporate it directly into Intella so we don't have to set up our own instance of Whisper and make sure it's properly configured.

I think I found my answer here: https://vound-software.com/docs/intella/2.6/#_tokenization_and_special_characters I believe that's a change with 2.6.

I'm trying to create a task to search for emails from Expedia and tag it as Travel. If I search for expedia.com, it finds those (6 emails) as the name that appears in the from field is Expedia.com, and the sender is actually expediamail.com. If I search for "expedia.*" or "expedia." (field specific "from" or "sender"), it produces 131 responsive emails. But many of the hits are where the word "expedia" is in the from/sender field, but not "expedia.". It's producing responsive emails that do not have the period. If I escape the period, it doesn't change anything. I know the period is not a special character. But it seems to be behaving like a period in a GREP expression, as the highlighted hit seems to be "expedia" followed by a space. I was hoping to search for "expedia.*" so that it would find expedia.com, expedia.ca, expedia.co.uk, etc. But the fact that it's hitting no Expedia followed by a space, I'm presuming it wouldn't yield the expected results. Is there something I should be doing different?

OK, thanks @Marco de Moulin. That isn't very practical if it has to re-index everything. Or can you tell it to skip what's already been indexed? If not, that can add a lot of time to a case if you have 3 or 4 crawler scripts you want to run against a case with 500,000 items in it for example. If the above is the case, the approach for now will be to pick the crawler script that provides the most value for a specific case and only run that one unless the value of additional scripts outweights the additional processing time. Jacques

OK, thanks @Marco de Moulin. The script for blank subjects ran correctly. Thanks for having shared it. When you do that, does it re-run everything from processing (indexing, tasks)? Or are you able to only run a script? Jacques

Hi Marco, I finally was able to get Intella Connect upgraded from 2.5 to 2.6.1. I'm currently running your script to look for blank subjects (or single space) by reprocessing a small collection of emails. I do have a question about the scripts. Can you run more than one script against evidence being ingested? And are you able to have it in a template of a case much like tasks? As I shared earlier, I created a case template and have it run a bunch of tasks. But for scripts, so far I'm only seeing where you can select that when adding a source. And I'm getting the impression you can only run one script. Thanks, Jacques

I see this is an old topic, but I figured I'd chime in. If you are exporting the results in native format, then clearly that would not be something you'd be able to do as you'd be changing the file (and it may not be possible to highlight text in a particular file format). If it's exporting everything to PDF, I'm not sure. Are you thinking of the latter? I'm thinking at minimum you'd be able to produce a report that breaks it down by keyword. So a user would know what keyword triggered the inclusion of a file in a report and they could search for it themselves.

Thanks Marco, It would be great to incorporate even the part that counts the # of %%EOF in a PDF and displays that in a custom column. That would alert the reviewer to the fact that a PDF has prior versions (that may or may not be recoverable, but knowing is half the battle). That would be a very easy (and short) Python script. Jacques

Great, that works. Thanks!

Hi Marco, It's one of our investigators who mentioned that it's one of the methods they use, the premises being that someone sending something to themselves or someone else that is not work related (and thus possibly related to the misconduct being investigated) may skip putting in a subject. I don't know if it materialized into producing evidence. But I thought it was a good approach so I want to add that to my initial pre-processing and tag all such emails automatically for the investigators who want to avail of that approach. Jacques

Thanks. I'm looking forward to exploring the power of crawler scripts. I know you have a discussion on that specifically and I'm excited to see how I can make use of it. I am pleased that it supports Python as that's the language I am familiar with.

Thanks Marco, I'm currently running 2.5 (waiting for license renewal to go through to upgrade to 2.6). Are Python scripts supported in 2.5 as well? Jacques