2019-07-22 22:53:30 +00:00
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2019-07-17 20:03:10 +00:00
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# Docspell
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2019-07-22 22:53:30 +00:00
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Docspell is a personal document organizer. You'll need a scanner to
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convert your papers into PDF files. Docspell can then assist in
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organizing the resulting mess :wink:.
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2020-01-11 21:12:51 +00:00
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You can associate tags, set correspondends, what a document is
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concerned with, a name, a date and some more. If your documents are
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associated with this meta data, you should be able to quickly find
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them later using the search feature. But adding this manually to each
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document is a tedious task. What if most of it could be done
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automatically?
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## How it works
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Documents have two main properties: a correspondent (sender or
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receiver that is not you) and something the document is about. Usually
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it is about a person or some thing – maybe your car, or contracts
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concerning some familiy member, etc.
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1. You maintain a kind of address book. It should list all possible
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correspondents and the concerning people/things. This grows
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incrementally with each *new unknown* document.
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2. When docspell analyzes a document, it tries to find matches within
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your address book. It can detect the correspondent and a concerning
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person or thing. It will then associate this data to your
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documents.
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3. You can inspect what docspell has done and correct it. If docspell
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has found multiple suggestions, they will be shown for you to
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select one. If it is not correctly associated, very often the
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correct one is just one click away.
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The set of meta data, that docspell uses to draw suggestions from,
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must be maintained manually. But usually, this data doesn't grow as
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fast as the documents. After a while there is a quite complete address
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book and only once in a while it has to be revisited.
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The [documentation](https://eikek.github.io/docspell/) provides for
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more information.
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