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fixup: mention inotify in 'utilities.rst'

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Erik Arvstedt 2018-05-21 21:23:57 +02:00
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@ -52,7 +52,8 @@ The consumer script runs in an infinite loop, constantly looking at a directory
for documents to parse and index. The process is pretty straightforward:
1. Look in ``CONSUMPTION_DIR`` for a document. If one is found, go to #2.
If not, wait 10 seconds and try again.
If not, wait 10 seconds and try again. On Linux, new documents are detected
instantly via inotify, so there's no waiting involved.
2. Parse the document with Tesseract
3. Create a new record in the database with the OCR'd text
4. Attempt to automatically assign document attributes by doing some guesswork.
@ -74,8 +75,8 @@ The consumer is started via the ``manage.py`` script:
$ /path/to/paperless/src/manage.py document_consumer
This starts the service that will run in a loop, consuming documents as they
appear in ``CONSUMPTION_DIR``.
This starts the service that will consume documents as they appear in
``CONSUMPTION_DIR``.
Note that this command runs continuously, so exiting it will mean your webserver
disappears. If you want to run this full-time (which is kind of the point)