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docs/configuration.md

@@ -1706,3 +1706,48 @@ password. All of these options come from their similarly-named [Django settings]
 #### [`PAPERLESS_EMAIL_USE_SSL=<bool>`](#PAPERLESS_EMAIL_USE_SSL) {#PAPERLESS_EMAIL_USE_SSL}
 
 : Defaults to false.
+
+## AI {#ai}
+
+#### [`PAPERLESS_ENABLE_AI=<bool>`](#PAPERLESS_ENABLE_AI) {#PAPERLESS_ENABLE_AI}
+
+: Enables the AI features in Paperless. This includes the AI-based
+suggestions. This setting is required to be set to true in order to use the AI features.
+
+    Defaults to false.
+
+#### [`PAPERLESS_AI_BACKEND=<str>`](#PAPERLESS_AI_BACKEND) {#PAPERLESS_AI_BACKEND}
+
+: The AI backend to use. This can be either "openai" or "ollama". If set to "ollama", the AI
+features will be run locally on your machine. If set to "openai", the AI features will be run
+using the OpenAI API. This setting is required to be set to use the AI features.
+
+    Defaults to None.
+
+    !!! note
+
+        The OpenAI API is a paid service. You will need to set up an OpenAI account and
+        will be charged for usage incurred by Paperless-ngx features and your document data
+        will (of course) be shared with OpenAI. Paperless-ngx does not endorse the use of the
+        OpenAI API in any way.
+
+        Refer to the OpenAI terms of service, and use at your own risk.
+
+#### [`PAPERLESS_LLM_MODEL=<str>`](#PAPERLESS_LLM_MODEL) {#PAPERLESS_LLM_MODEL}
+
+: The model to use for the AI backend, i.e. "gpt-3.5-turbo", "gpt-4" or any of the models supported by the
+current backend. This setting is required to be set to use the AI features.
+
+    Defaults to None.
+
+#### [`PAPERLESS_LLM_API_KEY=<str>`](#PAPERLESS_LLM_API_KEY) {#PAPERLESS_LLM_API_KEY}
+
+: The API key to use for the AI backend. This is required for the OpenAI backend only.
+
+    Defaults to None.
+
+#### [`PAPERLESS_LLM_URL=<str>`](#PAPERLESS_LLM_URL) {#PAPERLESS_LLM_URL}
+
+: The URL to use for the AI backend. This is required for the Ollama backend only.
+
+    Defaults to None.

docs/index.md

@@ -25,11 +25,12 @@ physical documents into a searchable online archive so you can keep, well, _less
 ## Features
 
 -   **Organize and index** your scanned documents with tags, correspondents, types, and more.
--   _Your_ data is stored locally on _your_ server and is never transmitted or shared in any way.
+-   _Your_ data is stored locally on _your_ server and is never transmitted or shared in any way, unless you explicitly choose to do so.
 -   Performs **OCR** on your documents, adding searchable and selectable text, even to documents scanned with only images.
 -   Utilizes the open-source Tesseract engine to recognize more than 100 languages.
 -   Documents are saved as PDF/A format which is designed for long term storage, alongside the unaltered originals.
 -   Uses machine-learning to automatically add tags, correspondents and document types to your documents.
+-   **New**: Paperless-ngx can now leverage AI (Large Language Models or LLMs) for document suggestions. This is an optional feature that can be enabled (and is disabled by default).
 -   Supports PDF documents, images, plain text files, Office documents (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and LibreOffice equivalents)[^1] and more.
 -   Paperless stores your documents plain on disk. Filenames and folders are managed by paperless and their format can be configured freely with different configurations assigned to different documents.
 -   **Beautiful, modern web application** that features:

docs/usage.md

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 You can also submit a document using the REST API, see [POSTing documents](api.md#file-uploads)
 for details.
 
+## Document Suggestions
+
+Paperless-ngx can suggest tags, correspondents, document types and storage paths for documents based on the content of the document. This is done using a machine learning model that is trained on the documents in your database. The suggestions are shown in the document detail page and can be accepted or rejected by the user.
+
+### AI-Enhanced Suggestions
+
+If enabled, Paperless-ngx can use an AI LLM model to suggest document titles, dates, tags, correspondents and document types for documents. This feature will always be "opt-in" and does not disable the existing suggestion system. Currently, both remote (via the OpenAI API) and local (via Ollama) models are supported, see [configuration](configuration.md#ai) for details.
+
 ## Sharing documents from Paperless-ngx
 
 Paperless-ngx supports sharing documents with other users by assigning them [permissions](#object-permissions)