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title = "Feed Data into Docspell"
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weight = 8
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description = "Shows several ways for getting data into Docspell."
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# Documents → Docspell
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One of the main goals is to stow documents away quickly.
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Docspell makes no assumptions about where your documents are. It
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offers just one HTTP endpoint that accepts files. (Well, technically
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you create them in the webapp, and you can create many of them.) This
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endpoint is designed to work conveniently with tools like
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[curl](https://curl.haxx.se/) and it should be easy to use from other
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languages, too.
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So the idea is to have most flexibility – that is, it is up to you how
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documents arrive. Of course, there is something prepared:
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## Upload in Webapp
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This is the simplest way, but also the least flexible. You can just
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login and go to the upload page to submit files.
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{{ figure2(light="web-upload.png", dark="web-upload_dark.png") }}
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This requires to login at the webapp. Since this is complicated from
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other applications, you can create custom hard-to-guess endpoints to
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use with the following options.
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## Scanners / Watch Directories
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If you have a (document) scanner (or think about getting one), it can
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usually be configured to place scanned documents as image or PDF files
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on your NAS. On your NAS, run `dsc watch` as a service (there is a
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docker container to get started) that watches this directory and
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uploads all incoming files to Docspell. The [dsc
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tool](@/docs/tools/cli.md) can watch directories recursively and can
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skip files already uploaded, so you can organize the files as you want
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in there (rename, move etc).
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This can be used multiple times on different machines, if desired.
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The scanner should support 300dpi for better results. Docspell
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converts the files into PDF adding a text layer of image-only files.
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Check out
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[scanadf2docspell](https://github.com/eresturo/scanadf2docspell) if
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your scanner is connected to your computer. This can create nice pdf
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files from scanners with ADF, applying corrections and sending them to
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docspell.
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{{ buttonright(href="/docs/tools/cli#watch-a-directory", text="More") }}
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## Android
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There is an [android
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client](https://github.com/docspell/android-client) provided that lets
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you upload files from your android devices. The idea is to use a
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separate app, like
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[OpenNoteScanner](https://github.com/ctodobom/OpenNoteScanner), to
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"scan" documents using your phone/tablet and then upload it to
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Docspell. For the upload part, you can use the provided app. It hooks
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into the Share-With menu and uploads the file to Docspell.
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This is especially useful to quickly upload small things like shopping
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receipts.
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<div class="grid grid-cols-2 gap-8 divide-x ">
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<div class="flex items-center justify-center">
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<a href="https://f-droid.org/packages/org.docspell.docspellshare">
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<img src="https://fdroid.gitlab.io/artwork/badge/get-it-on.png"
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alt="Get it on F-Droid"
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class="w-56"
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/>
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</a>
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</div>
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<div class="flex items-center justify-center text-xl">
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<i class="fa fa-download mr-2"></i>
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<span>
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<a href="https://github.com/docspell/android-client/releases/latest">Download the APK</a>
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</span>
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</div>
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</div>
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## Poll E-Mails
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Your mailbox can be polled periodically to import mails. For example,
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create a dedicated folder in your e-mail client and move mails in
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there that you want to push to Docspell. You can then define a
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recurring job, that looks into this folders and imports the mails.
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{{ figure2(light="scanmailbox.png", dark="scanmailbox_dark.png") }}
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{{ buttonright(href="/docs/webapp/scanmailbox", text="More") }}
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## E-Mail Server
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This is a little more involved, but can be quite nice. A SMTP server
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can be setup that simply uploads incoming mails to Docspell (using
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curl), instead of storing the mails on disk. This requires some
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knowledge to setup such a server and it makes sense to own a domain.
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Or it can be used internally to connect devices like scanners that
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offer a scan-to-mail option. The SMTP server would accept mails to
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*[your-username]@[your-domain]* and resolves the *[your-username]*
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part in Docspell to upload the files to the correct account.
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There is a docker container prepared to get started. Click below to
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read more.
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## Command-Line
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I like to use the command line, and so there is a cli that can be used
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for some tasks, for example uploading files. Below is a quick demo, it
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supports many more options, see the link below for details.
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<figure>
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<script id="asciicast-427679" src="https://asciinema.org/a/427679.js" async></script>
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</figure>
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{{ buttonright(href="/docs/tools/cli", text="More") }}
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