Scanned document management.
Gratte Papier takes scanned documents in batch, store them in a folder, tag and OCR them. You can then search for them via the command line or a minimal web front-end.
This is a very early release.
To make Gratte-papier, you require
- GHC 7.6.3
- cabal > 1.18
- m4
- coffee script (for the UI)
After everything is installed, simply go to the gratte-papier repo and run make
The executables will be in the bin directory of the project folder
To query, make sure you have Elasticsearch running
To add new documents, you also need
- ImageMagick
- Tesseract OCR
- poppler-utils
- elasticsearch
Also, you would need to have /var/gratte and var/log/gratte folders with read/write access, though they can be overriden by the appropritate options (see below).
WARNING: use those options for Elasticsearch if you don't want to expose its content to the local network!
discovery.zen.ping.multicast.enabled: false
node.local: true
Use gratte-papier -h to get all the common options, such as the log file, the Elasticsearch host/port, etc.
You add document via the command line interface. The best documentation I can give is the one you get by running gratte-papier add --help.
If you import files from somewhere else (or decrypted them, see below), you need to refresh Elasticsearch. Run gratte-papier reindex
Use gratte-papier serve. You need to have Elasticsearch running. By default the server listen on port 3000. To change that, use gratte-papier serve -p PORT.
You can then access the app at localhost:3000
You can also query via the command line. For more detail, try gratte-papier search --help
In case you want to encrypt your Gratte folder file by file to (say) save it on Dropbox, you can use gratte-papier encrypt -e /path/to/encrypted/folder. You can decrypt using gratte-papier decrypt -e /path/to/encrypted/folder. In both cases, it will only synchronize the files that are not present in the target directory. The files are encrypted using CBC / AES 256.
Also, if you don't want to retype your password every time, you can write it to a file (remove the newline) and invoke the command like so: gratte-papier --password-file /path/to/password-file [encrypt|decrypt] -e /path/to/encrypted/folder