## Introduction to Document Explorer

The Document Explorer extracts many different types of data from your contracts that you can use in a variety of ways. The following types of Data Entities are all extracted by the Document Explorer:

* Dates
* Date Durations
* Terms
* Definitions
* Parties
* Geographies
* Amounts
* Currencies
* Citations to laws (*e.g.*, "CCPA" or "GDPR")
* Regulations (*e.g.*, Titles of the U.S. Code)
* Percents
* Ratios
* Trademarks
* URLs
* Courts
* Copyrights
* Distances

When you first enter the Document Explorer, you will see a home page labeled **LexNLP Extracted Values** that displays options for viewing each type of Data Entity. Each Entity has between 2 and 4 different buttons associated with it. Clicking these buttons will navigate you to various "Entity Usage Lists".

  ![MainScreen](../../_static/img/guides/DocExp/Intro/MainScreen.png)

 These Entity Usage Lists can be viewed for a single project, or any number of projects. To select which projects to view Entity Usages for, use the "Project Selection" drop-down form at the top right of the screen.

  ![ProjectSelector](../../_static/img/guides/DocExp/Intro/ProjSelect.png)

Clicking on an Entity Usage List will navigate you to a Data Grid for that Entity. (In the image below, this is the "Date Usage List").

  ![DateUsageList](../../_static/img/guides/DocExp/Intro/DateUsageList.png)

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#### Loading Documents Using Document Explorer

*ContraxSuite customers can upload documents directly into [Batch Analysis](./../reviewers/batch_analysis) or [Contract Analysis](./../reviewers/contract_analysis) projects. Open source users of the ContraxSuite Document Explorer will need to follow the instructions below to upload documents to their ContraxSuite instance.*

**1.** In the Document Explorer, click on "Projects" in the main menu, and then click "Create" to create a new project. *You can skip this step if you wish to upload documents to a pre-existing project*.

  ![CreateProject](../../_static/img/guides/DocExp/Intro/CreateProj.png)

**2.** Enter a project name. There is also a box for an optional description of the project. (*The "Task Queues" box can be ignored*). Click "Create".

  ![CreateProject2](../../_static/img/guides/DocExp/Intro/CreateProj2.png)

**3.** Go to **Administration** > **Browse/Upload Documents** and click the "documents" folder. The contents of the **documents** folder should be displayed on the screen, with relevant breadcrumbs in the top left.

  ![DocExpDocList](../../_static/img/guides/DocExp/Intro/DocExpDocList.png)

  ![DocExpFolder](../../_static/img/guides/DocExp/Intro/DocExpFolder.png)

**4.** Click **Upload** to add more documents to the folder. You'll be redirected to an Upload screen. Click "Upload A File" to browse documents on your computer and upload them to the folder.

  ![ImportUpload](../../_static/img/guides/DocExp/Intro/ImportUpload.png)

**5.** Next, document upload progress bars will appear on the page. Click the "Return to uploads" button to return to the "Folders" page.

  ![ImportUpload2](../../_static/img/guides/DocExp/Intro/ImportUpload2.png)

**6.** After the upload completes, go to **Document List** and select your project in the "Project Selection" bar in the top right to show the documents in your project.

  ![UploadCompletDocumentList](../../_static/img/guides/DocExp/UpCompDocList.png)

You can now analyze the documents in your project. For more on the different tasks available to you once documents are finished uploading, go to the [Document-Level And Text Unit-Level Analysis](./documents_text_units).

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#### Projects Page

Clicking **Projects** in the Main Menu opens up an alphabetical list of all the projects on your ContraxSuite instance. Clicking "Menu" (at right) for any project will open a small pop-up with the option to "Update Project". Clicking a project in the Projects list will also take you to the "Update Project" page. On this page, you can change the name and description of a project.

  ![UpdateProject](../../_static/img/guides/DocExp/Intro/UpdateProjectPage.png)

On the main Projects page, use the Filter icon to engage filters on the list of projects in the Grid. You can also export Grid data into a `.csv`, `.xslx`, or `.pdf` using the "Export" button.

  ![ProjectOptions](../../_static/img/guides/DocExp/Intro/ProjectOptions.png)

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Navigate to other pages addressing Document Explorer functionality:
* ["Document-Level And Text Unit-Level Analysis"](./documents_text_units) tab (link to separate page)
* ["Administration"](./admin) tab (link to separate page)