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Welcome to the documentix wiki!

This program is intended to provide a functionality that some other commercial packages do:

Google: finds documents for you, but not on your machine - It (for good reasons) does not know them.
Foxit/Adobe: Shows documents but does not really keep a usable database of all your files
Spotlight: Well, does most of the things I need, but does not run on Unix servers, and the database is closed.

Documentix (howitworks),

• Shall keep a database of documents,
• Ensure the "image-only" documents are run through OCR and a searchable document is loaded in the database,
• Auto-classify the documents,
• Allow you to set cloud-tags to further group them,
• Search the database and present the results in a neat page (endless scrolling, tool-tip that highlights the search phrase,
• View the document in the web-browser,
• Be able to add documents using Drag&Drop or batch-scan directories.
• Contact your scanner and fetch new documents
  ** This is what Documentix already does!

Things that are not so great (yet):

GUI - Layout, Easy setup ( it needs perl, tesseract (>3.0.4), libpoppler, ghostscript, LibreOffice and some perl-modules) Mostly OS independance ( BSD/Linux/Windows/OSX )
Scanner support: It only talks to cannon mx870 like scanners with a SMB shared drive... Only PDF, msword and mspowerpoint is currently handled (using libreoffice). It should handle the ANY file too.

Planned features: I'd love to make a dockers image, Dropping documents on the drop-zone, shall allow a pop-up that enables manual classification, People that try it and give feedback.
A preference pane is missing