Paperless
Daniel Quinn, London UK, March 2015
@searchingfortao
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Paper Sucks
Paper Loves Being Mysterious
There's No Ctrl+F
Paper Hates Your Spine
It's heavy and takes up space
Paper Wants to Breed
Backups? More Paper!
Paper Hates the Planet
It's 2016
We shouldn't even need to use this stuff anymore
So I made Paperless
What's it Do?
- Consumes documents from a directory, API, or mailbox
- OCRs them and puts the text in a database
- Automatically tags the db record based on user-rules
- Encrypts and stores the original
- Generates, encrypts, and stores a thumbnail
It's Just a Wrapper
- ImageMagick
- Tesseract
- GnuPG
- Python3/Django
How's it Work?
There's two processes
1: The Consumer
(Imports documents)
- Runs in a loop
- Reads from a directory
- Occasionally checking a mailbox
2: The Webserver
(Lets you find stuff)
- Currently the Django Admin (I know)
- Provides a DRF API
- Users are building proper UIs
Demo!
Time to sacrifice a kitten
TODO
It works, but it could use polish
- The UI is the Django admin
- Mail consumption is really raw
- Some sort of plugin architecture?
- OMG Tests
Fork Me
https://github.com/danielquinn/paperless
