Bulk Extractor and alert lists to flag sensitive words

[Eira Tansey]

Hi list:

I have a group of records I'm working with that I know contain some sensitive files (e.g., job candidate evaluations). I want to identify these and segregate them from the rest of the accession. I am using Bulk Extractor (within BitCurator), and tried to create an alert list text file to flag sensitive words and phrases (see pages 27-28: http://digitalcorpora.org/downloads/bulk_extractor/BEUsersManual.pdf).

However, passing this alert list against a directory of files does not seem to result in any output, even though I know these words appear in at least some of the text documents. The built-in scanners are working fine and output things like phone numbers. Does anyone have advice? Alternative suggestions re: tools/methods for identifying documents with sensitive keywords would also be welcome.

Thanks,

 

Eira Tansey
Digital Archivist/Records Manager

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