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<img align="right" src="./artwork/logo-only.svg" height="150px" style="padding-left: 20px"/>
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[](https://travis-ci.org/eikek/docspell)
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[](https://scala-steward.org)
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# Docspell
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Docspell is a personal document organizer. You'll need a scanner to
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convert your papers into PDF files. Docspell can then assist in
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organizing the resulting mess :wink:.
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You can associate tags, set correspondends, what a document is
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concerned with, a name, a date and some more. If your documents are
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associated with this meta data, you should be able to quickly find
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them later using the search feature. But adding this manually to each
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document is a tedious task. What if most of it could be done
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automatically?
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It is provided as a REST server and a web application and is intended
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to be self-hosted.
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## How it works
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Documents have two main properties: a correspondent (sender or
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receiver that is not you) and something the document is about. Usually
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it is about a person or some thing – maybe your car, or contracts
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concerning some familiy member, etc.
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1. You maintain a kind of address book. It should list all possible
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correspondents and the concerning people/things. This grows
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incrementally with each *new unknown* document.
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2. When docspell analyzes a document, it tries to find matches within
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your address book. It can detect the correspondent and a concerning
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person or thing. It will then associate this data to your
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documents.
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3. You can inspect what docspell has done and correct it. If docspell
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has found multiple suggestions, they will be shown for you to
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select one. If it is not correctly associated, very often the
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correct one is just one click away.
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The set of meta data, that docspell uses to draw suggestions from,
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must be maintained manually. But usually, this data doesn't grow as
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fast as the documents. After a while there is a quite complete address
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book and only once in a while it has to be revisited.
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## Impressions
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Checkout the short demo videos (<1min), present on the [project
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page](https://docspell.org/#demos). Here are some screenshots:
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## Try it
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Docspell consists of several components. The probably quickest way to
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get started is to use the docker setup as described in the [get started
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page](https://docspell.org/#get-started). This is only three commands
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away:
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``` shell
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git clone https://github.com/eikek/docspell
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cd docspell
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docker-compose up
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```
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Then go to `http://localhost:7880`, sign up and login. Use the same
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name for collective and user for now. More on that can be found
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[here](https://docspell.org/docs/intro/).
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There are other ways, documented
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[here](https://docspell.org/docs/install/quickstart/):
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- Install the [provided](https://github.com/eikek/docspell/releases)
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`deb` file at your debian based system.
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- Download [provided](https://github.com/eikek/docspell/releases) zip
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file and run the script in `bin/`, as [described
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here](https://docspell.org/docs/install/installing/#download-unpack-run).
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- Using the [nix](https://nixos.org/nix) package manager as [described
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here](https://docspell.org/docs/install/installing/#nix). A NixOS
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module is available, too.
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## Documentation
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The [project page](https://docspell.org) has lots of information on
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how to [use and setup](https://docspell.org/docs) docspell.
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## Contributions
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Feedback and other contributions are very welcome! There is now a
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[gitter room](https://gitter.im/eikek/docspell) for quick questions.
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You can [open an issue](https://github.com/eikek/docspell/issues/new)
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for questions, problems and other feedback; or make a mail to
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`info [at] docspell.org`.
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## License
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Docspell is free software, distributed under the [GPLv3 or
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later](https://spdx.org/licenses/GPL-3.0-or-later.html).
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