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eikek/docspell

Assist in organizing your piles of documents, resulting from scanners, e-mails and other sources with miminal effort. observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/eikek/docspell · homepage · Elm · AGPL-3.0 (copyleft) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

67/100

  • Activity 99
  • Release rhythm 8
  • Longevity 100
How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: n/a
  • age_days: 2605
  • days_rel: 536
  • days_push: 8
  • n_releases_24m: 1

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

2314 stars · 182 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Docspell is a self-hosted document management system (DMS) for organizing scanned papers, e-mails, and other files. It automates metadata tagging using OCR and NLP (Stanford CoreNLP), offers fulltext search, and ships a web SPA, REST API, CLI, and Android client.

Use cases

  • organize scanned documents automatically
  • self-hosted document management system
  • run OCR on PDFs and tag documents
  • fulltext search across personal documents
  • ingest documents from email attachments
  • suggest tags and correspondents with machine learning

When to choose

  • you want a self-hosted Paperless-like DMS with NLP-based metadata suggestions
  • you need OCR plus fulltext search for scanned paperwork
  • you want email integration and multi-user support for a household or small team

When to avoid

  • you need a lightweight single-binary tool with minimal resource usage
  • you only need simple file storage without OCR or metadata extraction
  • you require enterprise DMS compliance features like records retention

Facets

application · maturity active

ocr nlp search-engine pdf machine-learning self-hosted developer-tools files pdf self-hosted browser cli document-management dms scala elm fulltext-search email-integration metadata-tagging natural-language-processing web-server docker android

2 sources

Member repositories

RepositoryRoleHealth v2
eikek/docspellmain67

For agents

markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="eikek/docspell")

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