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Docspell

Simple document organizer

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Docspell is a document organizer that brings together digital files from scanners, e-mail and other sources. It extracts text with OCR, analyzes it with machine learning to suggest annotations, and makes documents available through full-text search. Files can be converted to PDF while the originals are kept, and e-mails can be imported via IMAP on a schedule.

Features include multi-user accounts (collectives) where users share files with their own settings, OCR text extraction using tesseract, ML-based text analysis for automatic annotation, support for many file types including ZIP and EML, conversion to PDF with searchable text, full-text search across extracted text and properties, sending items via e-mail with SMTP, importing mailboxes via IMAP with scheduling, and notifications by e-mail, Matrix or Gotify. It is open source under AGPLv3+ and can be deployed with Docker and docker-compose.

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