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+description = "A list of features and limitations."
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+# Features
+
+- Multi-account application
+- Multiple users per account (multiple users can access the same
+  account)
+- Handle multiple documents as one unit
+- OCR using [tesseract](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract)
+- [Full-Text Search](@/docs/webapp/finding.md#full-text-search) based
+  on [Apache SOLR](https://lucene.apache.org/solr)
+- Conversion to PDF: all files are converted into a PDF file. PDFs
+  with only images (as often returned from scanners) are converted
+  into searchable PDF/A pdfs.
+- Non-destructive: all your uploaded files are never modified and can
+  always be downloaded untouched
+- Text is analysed to find and attach meta data automatically
+- [Manage document processing](@/docs/webapp/processing.md): cancel
+  jobs, set priorities
+- Everything available via a [documented](https://www.openapis.org/)
+  [REST Api](@/docs/api/_index.md); allows to [generate
+  clients](https://openapi-generator.tech/docs/generators) for
+  (almost) any language
+- mobile-friendly Web-UI
+- [Create “share-urls”](@/docs/webapp/uploading.md#anonymous-upload)
+  to upload files anonymously
+- [Send documents via e-mail](@/docs/webapp/mailitem.md)
+- [E-Mail notification](@/docs/webapp/notifydueitems.md) for documents
+  with due dates
+- [Read your mailboxes](@/docs/webapp/scanmailbox.md) via IMAP to
+  import mails into docspell
+- REST server and document processing are separate applications which
+  can be scaled-out independently
+- Everything stored in a SQL database: PostgreSQL, MariaDB or H2
+  - H2 is embedded, a "one-file-only" database, avoids installing db
+    servers
+- Files supported:
+  - Documents:
+    - PDF
+    - common MS Office (doc, docx, xls, xlsx)
+    - OpenDocument (odt, ods)
+    - RichText (rtf)
+    - Images (jpg, png, tiff)
+    - HTML
+    - text/* (treated as Markdown)
+  - Archives (extracted automatically, can be nested)
+    - zip
+    - [eml](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email#Filename_extensions)
+      (e-mail files in plain text MIME)
+- Tooling:
+  - [Watch a folder](@/docs/tools/consumedir.md): watch folders for
+    changes and send files to docspell
+  - [Simple CLI for uploading files](@/docs/tools/ds.md)
+  - [Firefox plugin](@/docs/tools/browserext.md): right click on a
+    link and send the file to docspell
+  - [SMTP Gateway](@/docs/tools/smtpgateway.md): Setup a SMTP server
+    that delivers mails directly to docspell.
+- License: GPLv3
+
+
+# Limitations
+
+These are current known limitations that may be of interest for
+considering docspell at the moment.
+
+- Documents cannot be modified.
+- You can remove and add documents but there is no versioning.