Redeye Text Analysis Workbench: Actionable intelligence from non-actionable data

With the increase in digital data within the realm of law enforcement digital forensics comes significant challenges in the form of data discovery and analysis. The Redeye Text Analysis Workbench, produced by Oak Ridge National Laboratory, seeks to bridge the gap between existing data acquisition and higher-level data analysis systems in which forensic analysts must currently manually identify pertinent and relevant documents from possibly many terabytes of data that can then be used as input for further examination. The Redeye toolkit comprises two separate components: an ingestion pipeline and the workbench interface. Both of these components incorporate a number of tools — open source, proprietary, and custom-built — which have been integrated together to transcend the tools themselves. The final application is a means to facilitate the discovery of interesting, useful data within a digital forensics investigation.