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layout: docs
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title: Features and Limitations
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permalink: features
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# Features
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- Multi-account application
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- Multiple users per account (multiple users can access the same
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account)
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- Handle multiple documents as one unit
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- OCR using [tesseract](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract)
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- [Full-Text Search](doc/finding#full-text-search) based on [Apache
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SOLR](https://lucene.apache.org/solr)
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- Conversion to PDF: all files are converted into a PDF file. PDFs
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with only images (as often returned from scanners) are converted
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into searchable PDF/A pdfs.
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- Non-destructive: all your uploaded files are never modified and can
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always be downloaded untouched
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- Text is analysed to find and attach meta data automatically
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- [Manage document processing](doc/processing): cancel jobs, set
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priorities
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- Everything available via a [documented](https://www.openapis.org/)
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[REST Api](api); allows to [generate
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clients](https://openapi-generator.tech/docs/generators) for
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(almost) any language
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- mobile-friendly Web-UI
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- [Create “share-urls”](doc/uploading#anonymous-upload) to upload files
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anonymously
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- [Send documents via e-mail](doc/mailitem)
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- [E-Mail notification](doc/notifydueitems) for documents with due dates
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- [Read your mailboxes](doc/scanmailbox) via IMAP to import mails into
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docspell
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- REST server and document processing are separate applications which
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can be scaled-out independently
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- Everything stored in a SQL database: PostgreSQL, MariaDB or H2
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- H2 is embedded, a "one-file-only" database, avoids installing db
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servers
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- Files supported:
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- Documents:
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- PDF
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- common MS Office (doc, docx, xls, xlsx)
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- OpenDocument (odt, ods)
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- RichText (rtf)
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- Images (jpg, png, tiff)
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- HTML
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- text/* (treated as Markdown)
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- Archives (extracted automatically, can be nested)
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- zip
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- [eml](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email#Filename_extensions)
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(e-mail files in plain text MIME)
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- [Tooling](doc/tools):
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- [Watch a folder](doc/tools/consumedir): watch folders for changes
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and send files to docspell
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- [Simple CLI for uploading files](doc/tools/ds)
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- [Firefox plugin](doc/tools/browserext): right click on a link and
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send the file to docspell
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- [SMTP Gateway](doc/tools/smtpgateway): Setup a SMTP server that
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delivers mails directly to docspell.
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- License: GPLv3
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# Limitations
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These are current known limitations that may be of interest for
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considering docspell at the moment.
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- Documents cannot be modified.
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- You can remove and add documents but there is no versioning.
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