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Windows users can go to Brown Dog Clients to download BD windows Client Installer and install it on Windows (7, 10).
After installation you can setup the client to utilize a specific DTS instance by going to settings and setting the server along with your credentials for that server:
Conversions
To convert a file right click on a the file and selected selecte "Brown Dog DTS → Convert":
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The Windows client will show the reachable output formats from the files current format. Select the desired output format and press "Submit":
Entire folders can also be converted by selecting "Brown Dog → Convert":
Extractions
User can execute extraction on To extract information from a file by right clicking it and selecting ``Extraction'' from pop-up menu.right click on the file and select "Brown Dog DTS → Extract":
The extraction output file is json file, which is named as the file name. For example, in above figures, user runs extraction on file ``browndog.png'', and after completion, extraction output file will be written as ``browndog.json''in the same working directory.
Finding Similar Files
User can index image files in a target folder, and then pick an indexed image and right click ``Find Similar'' to extract the similarity result from all indexed images.
Above figures show how user can execute ``Find Similar'' among images under ``caltech101'' folder. First, user needs to do ``Index'' to index all images under ``caltech101'' folder (left figure), when indexing is done, a ``.index.tsv'' file will be generated under this folder. Then user can browser indexed images in ``caltech101'' folder and select an image and right click on it to execute ``Find Similar''. In this example, user selects an image file ``dollar_bill.jpg'' and the output file of ``dollar_billFind.json'' file will be generated under the same working directory.
will be contained within a JSON file of the same name:
Any derived products will also be available within a new zip file of the same name.
Finding Similar Files
Users can index files within folders based on derived tags/data and then search that folder with an example file to find files that are similar to it in terms of derived data. To index a folder simply right click on it and select "Brown Dog DTS → Index":
To carry out a content based search across this folder select a file to use as the query, right click on it and select "Brown Dog DTS → Find Similar":
Windows Client ranks the search result from Top (most similarity) to Bottom (least similarity).
