Docspell 0.7.0

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This release focuses on the WebUI when working with items and documents. Notable changes:

• Enable paging in the item list view. When scrolling down, a button at the end can load more items.
• The item list contains all tags of an item.
• Tag colors can be customized.
• Item metadata can be added directly in the item detail view. (See #138)
• Allow for multiple notify-due-items tasks.
• Adds a "basic search" feature that looks in item notes, name and all names of correspondents/concerned enities.
• Allow to change names of attachments.

There is more, please see the Changelog for details. There were additions to the config files and the rest api.

Docspell 0.6.0

Changelog • Documentation

This release includes a few features, some improvements and bug fixes. Notable changes:

• Import e-mails from your mailbox via periodic polling. You can now setup one or more tasks to run periodically that fetch mails from your mailbox and imports them into docspell.
• Add files to existing items.
• Change order of attachments
• Frontpage has been overhauled; items are presented as “cards” and the search menu can be moved away.
• Fix webapp for mobile devices.

There is more, please see the Changelog for details. There were additions to the config files and the rest api.

Docspell 0.5.0

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This release fixes various issues related to processing e-mail files. A new feature has been added allowing to be notified about due items.

Notable Changes:

• Notify about due items: A periodic task can be setup to check for upcoming due items and be notified via e-mail.
• Allow to delete single attachments from an item
• Many fixes when processing e-mail files

The configuration for the joex component has been changed. Please see the Changelog for more info.

Docspell 0.4.0

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This release adds support for zip and e-mail files and introduces a framework for running periodic tasks. While periodic tasks are currently only used internally, it prepares for user defined tasks coming in later releases.

Notable Changes:

• Support for archives files. Archives (currently zip and eml files) are extracted automatically and its content are added to an item. The major change is support for e-mail eml files. It allows to submit e-mails directly from your e-mail client into docspell.
• Improvements in text analysis.
• Fixes for handling text files.
• The pdf viewer can now be switched back to use the browsers builtin viewer. It seems that the viewerjs based pdf renderer cannot display all pdfs as good as the builtin viewer. Now you can choose.

The configuration for the joex component has been changed. Please see the Changelog for more info.

Docspell 0.3.0

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The third release focuses at opening Docspell to more file types and browsers.

• Support for many more document types has been added (including images and office documents). All input files are converted into PDF files and the original file is preserved.
• PDF Text extraction improved by omitting OCR if text can be stripped.
• There is a new PDF viewer (utilizing viewerjs) that also works in mobile browsers.
• Improve editing notes: Since notes may evolve, there is now a larger edit form and a markdown preview.
• Show the extracted information (text, labels, proposals) of an attachment in the Webui.
• The name search now also searches in item notes.
• Bug fixed where it was possible to create invalid input when creating new sources.
• Bug fixed where the item menu was not properly initialized for equipments.
• The ds.sh script has now an option to check a file for existence in docspell.

This introduces two more external tools to the joex component that do the heavy lifting: unoconv and wkhtmltopdf. The configuration for the joex component has been changed. Please see the Changelog for more info.

Docspell 0.2.0

The second release of Docspell addresses some annoying issues in the UI and adds a "send by email" feature.

Notable Changes:

• Send an item and its attachments via E-Mail (requires to setup SMTP settings per user)
• Add a search field for meta data
• The item detail view is now a perma-link
• New endpoints to check whether a file is in Docspell by using their SHA-256 checksum (see the api doc here and here), the scripts in tools/ now use this endpoint to skip existing files
• Better support multiple attachments with long names in the UI
• Fixes textarea updating issues

Checkout the updated documentation for more details.

Initial Release

The initial release of Docspell containing the basic features with a Web UI:

• Create items by uploading PDF files
• Analyze the PDF files and propose meta data
• Manage meta data and items
• View processing queue

See the microsite for documentation.