# eikek/docspell

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

Repository: https://github.com/eikek/docspell
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/docspell
Homepage: https://docspell.org
Language: Elm
License: AGPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: ocr, stanford-corenlp, personal-document-system, scala, elm, pdf, document-management, dms, docspell, edms, document-management-system, nlp, spa, document, self-hosted, webapp
Last push: 2026-08-25T23:45:07+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 67/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2605, "days_push": 8, "days_rel": 536, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 1}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2314, forks 182 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:36.689874+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: ocr, nlp, search-engine, pdf, machine-learning
- domain: self-hosted, developer-tools, files, pdf
- platform: self-hosted, browser, cli
- tags: document-management, dms, scala, elm, fulltext-search, email-integration, metadata-tagging, natural-language-processing, web-server, docker, android

## Member repositories
- eikek/docspell (main) score 67

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:36.689874+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:39:26.999176+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/eikek/docspell (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:36.689874+00:00, sha f5fcc8424551)
  - homepage: https://docspell.org (fetched 2026-08-29T10:19:24.267534+00:00, sha 88cf22588730)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.