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 # Docspell
 
 Docspell is a personal document organizer. You'll need a scanner to
-convert your papers into PDF files. Docspell can then assist in
+convert your papers into files. Docspell can then assist in
 organizing the resulting mess :wink:.
 
 You can associate tags, set correspondends, what a document is