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-# The UID and GID of the user used to run paperless in the container. Set this
-# to your UID and GID on the host so that you have write access to the
-# consumption directory.
-#USERMAP_UID=1000
-#USERMAP_GID=1000
-
-# Additional languages to install for text recognition, separated by a
-# whitespace. Note that this is
-# different from PAPERLESS_OCR_LANGUAGE (default=eng), which defines the
-# default language used when guessing the language from the OCR output.
-# The container installs English, German, Italian, Spanish and French by
-# default.
-# See https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=tesseract-ocr-&searchon=names&suite=buster
-# for available languages.
-#PAPERLESS_OCR_LANGUAGES=tur ces
-
-###############################################################################
-# Paperless-specific settings                                                 #
-###############################################################################
-
-# All settings defined in the paperless.conf.example can be used here. The
-# Docker setup does not use the configuration file.
-# A few commonly adjusted settings are provided below.
-
-# Adjust this key if you plan to make paperless available publicly. It should
-# be a very long sequence of random characters. You don't need to remember it.
-#PAPERLESS_SECRET_KEY=change-me
-
-# Use this variable to set a timezone for the Paperless Docker containers. If not specified, defaults to UTC.
-#PAPERLESS_TIME_ZONE=America/Los_Angeles
-
-# The default language to use for OCR. Set this to the language most of your
-# documents are written in.
-#PAPERLESS_OCR_LANGUAGE=eng