docspell/modules/microsite/docs/features.md

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docs	Features and Limitations

Features

• Multi-account application
• Multiple users per account
• Handle multiple documents as one unit
• OCR using tesseract
• Conversion to PDF: all files are converted into a PDF file, while the original file is preserved
• Text is analysed to find and attach meta data automatically
• Manage document processing (cancel jobs, set priorities)
• Everything available via a documented REST Api
• Web-UI included
• Create “share-urls” to upload files anonymously
• Send documents via e-mail
• 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:
  • PDF
  • common MS Office (doc, docx, xls, xlsx)
  • OpenDocument (odt, ods)
  • RichText (rtf)
  • Images (jpg, png, tiff)
  • HTML
  • text/* (treated as Markdown)
• Tools:
  • 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.