From 205909558139cfa4b028149d0a3d672a672d09f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eike Kettner Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2021 00:59:35 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Update README --- Contributing.md | 3 +++ README.md | 31 +++++++++++++++++-------------- 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) diff --git a/Contributing.md b/Contributing.md index 2e114ef8..58cb5376 100644 --- a/Contributing.md +++ b/Contributing.md @@ -17,6 +17,9 @@ If you don't like to sign up to github/matrix or like to reach me personally, you can make a mail to `info [at] docspell.org` or on matrix, via `@eikek:matrix.org`. +If you find a feature request already filed, you can vote on it. I +tend to prefer most voted requests to those without much attention. + ## Documentation diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 459dd779..1093ecce 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -9,25 +9,28 @@ # Docspell Docspell is a personal document organizer. You'll need a scanner to -convert your papers into files. Docspell can then assist in -organizing the resulting mess :wink:. +convert your papers into files. Docspell can then assist in organizing +the resulting mess :wink:. It is targeted for home use, i.e. families +and households and also for (smaller) groups/companies. -You can associate tags, set correspondends, what a document is -concerned with, a name, a date and much more. If your documents are -associated with such 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. Docspell can help you by suggesting -correspondents, guessing tags or finding dates using machine learning -techniques. This makes adding metadata to your documents a lot easier. +You can associate tags, set correspondends and lots of other +predefined and custom metadata. If your documents are associated with +such meta data, you can quickly find them later using the search +feature. But adding this manually is a tedious task. Docspell can help +by suggesting correspondents, guessing tags or finding dates using +machine learning. It can learn metadata from existing documents and +find things using NLP. This makes adding metadata to your documents a +lot easier. For machine learning, it relies on the free (GPL) +[Stanford Core NLP library](https://github.com/stanfordnlp/CoreNLP). Docspell also runs OCR (if needed) on your documents, can provide fulltext search and has great e-mail integration. Everything is accessible via a REST/HTTP api. A mobile friendly SPA web application -is provided as the user interface and an [Android -app](https://github.com/docspell/android-client) for conveniently -uploading files from your phone/tablet. The [feature -overview](https://docspell.org/#feature-selection) has a more complete -list. +is the default user interface. An [Android +app](https://github.com/docspell/android-client) exists for +conveniently uploading files from your phone/tablet. The [feature +overview](https://docspell.org/#feature-selection) lists some more +points. ## Impressions