Lots of things are improved with a GUI. IMO this is one of them.
Having a no-nonsense and predictable folder structure to store documents makes sense for those who are organized. For those who aren’t, you can still use projects like this to sort data so they’re retrievable by everyone, not just those who know and understand your folder structure.
The intake emails are particularly interesting. Receive email with attachment and save it automatically. Excellent for repetitively collecting data without setting anything extra up. Just create an email alias for your intake, and distribute it. Wait for people to email shit to you.
Great idea, IMO.
CameronDev@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
At least for paperless, one of the selling points is OCR plus text search. Do you can dump in all your receipts as photos, and then 3 years later, search “lawnmower” and find the receipt for it. (I dont know if this applies for this software, but its very nice in paperless)
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That does sound useful
Joelk111@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Damn I’ve gotta set up one of these, whether it be this one or paperless. The text recognition in photos would be huge.
CameronDev@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Just to lightly temper your expectations, the OCR isnt perfect, and you may need to add your own tags/text, but its still an awesome system.
jagged_circle@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
So basically gmail’s motto: “search, dont sort”
filcuk@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Not necessarily, paperless offers various sorting and cataloguing mechanisms, as well as rules and basic learning. If you spend time setting it all up, it should drive itself in time and search may only be a fallback mechanism.