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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)
- Conversion to PDF: all files are converted into a PDF file
- 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 (cancel jobs, set priorities)
- Everything available via a documented [REST Api](api)
- Web-UI included
- Create “share-urls” to upload files anonymously
- Send documents via e-mail
- E-Mail notification for documents with due dates
- REST server and document processing are separate applications which
  can be scaled-out independently
- Everything stored in a SQL database: PostgreSQL, MariaDB or H2
- 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: watch folders for changes and send files to docspell
  - Firefox plugin: right click on a link and send the file to docspell
  - Simple CLI for uploading files
- License: GPLv3


# Limitations

These are current known limitations that may be of interest for
considering docspell at the moment. Hopefully they will be resolved
eventually….

- No fulltext search implemented. This currently has very low
  priority, because I myself never needed it. Open an issue if you
  find it important.