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I want to show an alternative approach to managing your documents: Store them in your IMAP/Mails. Either on an own account or in a dedicated sub-folder. I wro
by theomega 9y ago
I want to show an alternative approach to managing your documents:
Store them in your IMAP/Mails. Either on an own account or in a dedicated sub-folder.
I wrote some small python scripts [1] which allow you to:
- Add an email with the PDF attached to your document collection. The script supports adding a subject and adding tags to it
- Go over all the emails and run an OCR (tesseract) on them: Attach the OCR result together with the pdf to the email.
Big advantage:
- Search on IMAP is a solved problem
- Clients for every operating system in the world, including web, mobile
- Super simple backup and restore
Over course, very geeky, nothing for your parents, but maybe something for you?
[1]: https://github.com/theomega/IMAP_DMS https://github.com/theomega/IMAP_DMS
- JohnStrange 9y agoDon't you have to run your own IMAP server for that to work? Although my mail provider is fairly generous about storage space, it's not unlimited.
- theomega 9y agoDepends on two things: Your space and your privacy requirements. Google Mail works for example if you are willing to trust Google. A lot of email providers offer you a lot of space.
- mdaniel 9y agoJust ensure you pick a "good" encoding scheme, because base64-ing PDFs will balloon that storage space in a very big hurry