Changelog

v0.4.0

Mar. 29, 2020

Support for archive files. Archives, for example zip files, contain the files that should go into docspell. Docspell now extracts archives and adds the content to an item. The extraction process is recursive, so there may be zip files in zip files. File types supported:
- zip every file inside is added to one item as attachment
- eml (RCF822 E-Mail files) E-mails are considered archives, since they may contain multiple files (body and attachments).
Periodic Tasks framework: Docspell can now run tasks periodically based on a schedule. This is not yet exposed to the user, but there are some system cleanup jobs to start with.
Improvement of the text analysis. For my test files there was a increase in accuracy by about 10%.
A due date that is found during text analysis is now set on the item. If multiple due dates are found, the earliest one is used.
Allow to switch between viewerjs PDF viewer or the browser's builtin viewer.
Bug fixes related to handling text files.
Add a configurable length limit for text analysis

The configuration of the joex component has been changed.

new section docspell.joex.periodic-scheduler for configuring the periodic scheduler
new section docspell.joex.house-keeping for configuring house-keeping tasks
new section docspell.joex.text-analysis for configuring the new size limit
The command for running wkhtmltopdf changed in that the encoding is now added at runtime.

The REST Api has some additions:

new route to retrieve the archive file
add field in ItemDetail data that refers to the archive files of the attachments

Mar. 1, 2020

Support for many more document types has been added (including images and office documents). All input files are converted into PDF files (the original file is preserved).
PDF Text extraction improved by omitting OCR if text can be stripped.
There is a new PDF viewer (utilizing viewerjs) that also works in mobile browsers.
Improve editing notes: Since notes may evolve, there is now a larger edit form and a markdown preview.
Show the extracted information (text, labels, proposals) of an attachment in the Webui.
The name search now also searches in item notes.
Bug fixed where it was possible to create invalid input when creating new sources.
Bug fixed where the item menu was not properly initialized for equipments.
The ds.sh script has now an option to check a file for existence in docspell.

The configuration of the joex component has been changed.

removed docspell.joex.extraction.allowed-content-types
other settings in docspell.joex.extraction have been moved to docspell.joex.extraction.ocr
added docspell.joex.extraction.ocr.max-image-size
added docspell.joex.extraction.pdf.min-text-len
added sections in docspell.joex.convert for pdf conversion settings

The REST Api has some additions:

new route to retrieve the original file
new route to get the rendered pdf of an attachment (using viewerjs)
add field in ItemDetail data that refers to the original files of the attachments

Jan. 12, 2020

The second release of Docspell addresses some annoying issues in the UI and adds a "send by email" feature.

Send an item and its attachments via E-Mail (requires to setup SMTP settings per user)
Add a search field for meta data
The item detail view is now a perma-link
New endpoints to check whether a file is in Docspell by using their SHA-256 checksum (see the api doc here and here), the scripts in tools/ now use this endpoint to skip existing files
Better support multiple attachments with long names in the UI
Fixes textarea updating issues

Sep. 21, 2019

The initial release of Docspell containing the basic features with a Web UI: