diff --git a/paperless.conf.example b/paperless.conf.example
index d47e4d453..15498a26a 100644
--- a/paperless.conf.example
+++ b/paperless.conf.example
@@ -117,6 +117,10 @@ PAPERLESS_EMAIL_SECRET=""
 # http://paperless.readthedocs.org/en/latest/consumption.html#hooking-into-the-consumption-process
 #PAPERLESS_POST_CONSUME_SCRIPT="/path/to/an/arbitrary/script.sh"
 
+# By default, when clicking on a document within the web interface, the
+# browser will prompt the user to save the document to disk. By setting this to
+# "true", the document will instead be opened in the browser, if possible.
+#PAPERLESS_INLINE_DOC="false"
 
 #
 # The following values use sensible defaults for modern systems, but if you're
diff --git a/src/documents/views.py b/src/documents/views.py
index d7e900147..9cb66b59c 100644
--- a/src/documents/views.py
+++ b/src/documents/views.py
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 from django.http import HttpResponse, HttpResponseBadRequest
 from django.views.generic import DetailView, FormView, TemplateView
 from django_filters.rest_framework import DjangoFilterBackend
+from django.conf import settings
+
 from paperless.db import GnuPG
 from paperless.mixins import SessionOrBasicAuthMixin
 from paperless.views import StandardPagination
@@ -63,8 +65,11 @@ class FetchView(SessionOrBasicAuthMixin, DetailView):
             self._get_raw_data(self.object.source_file),
             content_type=content_types[self.object.file_type]
         )
-        response["Content-Disposition"] = 'attachment; filename="{}"'.format(
-            self.object.file_name)
+
+        DISPOSITION = 'inline' if settings.INLINE_DOC else 'attachment'
+
+        response["Content-Disposition"] = '{}; filename="{}"'.format(
+            DISPOSITION, self.object.file_name)
 
         return response
 
diff --git a/src/paperless/settings.py b/src/paperless/settings.py
index 7cb7646c4..956b90a7f 100644
--- a/src/paperless/settings.py
+++ b/src/paperless/settings.py
@@ -22,6 +22,14 @@ elif os.path.exists("/usr/local/etc/paperless.conf"):
     load_dotenv("/usr/local/etc/paperless.conf")
 
 
+def __get_boolean(key):
+    """
+    Return a boolean value based on whatever the user has supplied in the
+    environment based on whether the value "looks like" it's True or not.
+    """
+    return bool(os.getenv(key, "NO").lower() in ("yes", "y", "1", "t", "true"))
+
+
 # Build paths inside the project like this: os.path.join(BASE_DIR, ...)
 BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
 
@@ -222,12 +230,12 @@ OCR_LANGUAGE = os.getenv("PAPERLESS_OCR_LANGUAGE", "eng")
 OCR_THREADS = os.getenv("PAPERLESS_OCR_THREADS")
 
 # OCR all documents?
-OCR_ALWAYS = bool(os.getenv("PAPERLESS_OCR_ALWAYS", "NO").lower() in ("yes", "y", "1", "t", "true"))  # NOQA
+OCR_ALWAYS = __get_boolean("PAPERLESS_OCR_ALWAYS")
 
 # If this is true, any failed attempts to OCR a PDF will result in the PDF
 # being indexed anyway, with whatever we could get.  If it's False, the file
 # will simply be left in the CONSUMPTION_DIR.
-FORGIVING_OCR = bool(os.getenv("PAPERLESS_FORGIVING_OCR", "YES").lower() in ("yes", "y", "1", "t", "true"))  # NOQA
+FORGIVING_OCR = __get_boolean("PAPERLESS_FORGIVING_OCR")
 
 # GNUPG needs a home directory for some reason
 GNUPG_HOME = os.getenv("HOME", "/tmp")
@@ -271,6 +279,9 @@ PASSPHRASE = os.getenv("PAPERLESS_PASSPHRASE")
 PRE_CONSUME_SCRIPT = os.getenv("PAPERLESS_PRE_CONSUME_SCRIPT")
 POST_CONSUME_SCRIPT = os.getenv("PAPERLESS_POST_CONSUME_SCRIPT")
 
+# Whether to display a selected document inline, or download it as attachment:
+INLINE_DOC = __get_boolean("PAPERLESS_INLINE_DOC")
+
 # The number of items on each page in the web UI.  This value must be a
 # positive integer, but if you don't define one in paperless.conf, a default of
 # 100 will be used.