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# Docspell
Docspell is a personal document organizer. You'll need a scanner to
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convert your papers into files. Docspell can then assist in
organizing the resulting mess :wink:.
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You can associate tags, set correspondends, what a document is
concerned with, a name, a date and some more. If your documents are
associated with this meta data, you should be able to quickly find
them later using the search feature. But adding this manually to each
document is a tedious task. What if most of it could be done
automatically?
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It is provided as a REST server and a web application and is intended
to be self-hosted.
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## How it works
Documents have two main properties: a correspondent (sender or
receiver that is not you) and something the document is about. Usually
it is about a person or some thing maybe your car, or contracts
concerning some familiy member, etc.
1. You maintain a kind of address book. It should list all possible
correspondents and the concerning people/things. This grows
incrementally with each *new unknown* document.
2. When docspell analyzes a document, it tries to find matches within
your address book. It can detect the correspondent and a concerning
person or thing. It will then associate this data to your
documents.
3. You can inspect what docspell has done and correct it. If docspell
has found multiple suggestions, they will be shown for you to
select one. If it is not correctly associated, very often the
correct one is just one click away.
The set of meta data, that docspell uses to draw suggestions from,
must be maintained manually. But usually, this data doesn't grow as
fast as the documents. After a while there is a quite complete address
book and only once in a while it has to be revisited.
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## Impressions
Checkout the short demo videos (<1min), present on the [project
page](https://docspell.org/#demos). Here are some screenshots:
![screenshot-1](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eikek/docspell/master/website/site/content/docs/webapp/docspell-curate-1.jpg)
![screenshot-2](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eikek/docspell/master/website/site/content/docs/webapp/docspell-curate-2.jpg)
## Try it
Docspell consists of several components. The probably quickest way to
get started is to use the docker setup as described in the [get started
page](https://docspell.org/#get-started). This is only three commands
away:
``` shell
git clone https://github.com/eikek/docspell
cd docspell
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DOCSPELL_HEADER_VALUE="my-secret-123" docker-compose up
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```
Then go to `http://localhost:7880`, sign up and login. Use the same
name for collective and user for now. More on that can be found
[here](https://docspell.org/docs/intro/).
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Other ways are documented
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[here](https://docspell.org/docs/install/quickstart/):
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- Install the [provided](https://github.com/eikek/docspell/releases)
`deb` file at your debian based system.
- Download [provided](https://github.com/eikek/docspell/releases) zip
file and run the script in `bin/`, as [described
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here](https://docspell.org/docs/install/installing/#download-unpack-run).
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- Using the [nix](https://nixos.org/nix) package manager as [described
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here](https://docspell.org/docs/install/installing/#nix). A NixOS
module is available, too.
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## Documentation
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The [project page](https://docspell.org) has lots of information on
how to [use and setup](https://docspell.org/docs) docspell.
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## Contributions
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Feedback and other contributions are very welcome! There is now a
[gitter room](https://gitter.im/eikek/docspell) for quick questions.
You can [open an issue](https://github.com/eikek/docspell/issues/new)
for questions, problems and other feedback; or make a mail to
`info [at] docspell.org`.
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## License
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Docspell is free software, distributed under the [GPLv3 or
later](https://spdx.org/licenses/GPL-3.0-or-later.html).