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@ -16,14 +16,34 @@ studying huge manuals in order to use it. With this in mind, it is
rather opinionated and more targeted for home use and small/medium
organizations.
Docspell analyzes the text of your files and tries to find metadata
that will be annotated automatically. This metadata is taken from an
address book that must be maintained manually. Docspell then looks for
candidates for:
In contrast to many DMS, the main focus is not so much to provide all
kinds of features to manually create organizational structures, like
folder hierarchies, where you place the documents yourself. The
approach is more to leave it as a big pile of documents, but extract
and attach metadata from each document. These are mainly properties
that emerge from the document itself. The reason is that this is
possible to automate and that many custom folder structures include
these metadata somewhere, too. This makes it very simple to *add*
documents, because there is no time spent to think about where to put
it. And it is possible to apply different structures on top later,
like show first all documents of a specific correspondent, then all
with tag 'invoice', etc. If these properties are attached to all
documents, it is really easy to find a document. It even can be
combined with fulltext search for the, hopefully rare, desperate
cases.
Of course, it is also possible to add custom properties and arbitrary
tags.
Docspell analyzes the text to find metadata automatically. It can
learn from existing data and can apply
[NLP](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_language_processing)
techniques to support this. This metadata must be maintained manually
in the application. Docspell looks for candidates for:
- Correspondents
- Concerned person or things
- A date
- A date and due date
- Tags
For tags, it sets all that it thinks do apply. For the others, it will
@ -34,7 +54,7 @@ However, very often the correct one is either set or within the
proposals where you fix it by a single click.
Besides these properties, there are more metadata you can use to
organize your files, for example tags, folders and notes.
organize your files, for example custom fields, folders and notes.
Docspell is also for programmers. Everything is available via a REST
or HTTP api and can be easily used within your own scripts and tools,