docspell/modules/microsite/docs/features.md
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title: 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)
- 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
- 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.