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Greg Sutcliffe edited this page Oct 21, 2013 · 2 revisions

Welcome to Delve!

Delve aims to be a complete Open Source document management system. Currently it's in alpha mode, which some features missing, but it is usable (at least, I'm using it for my Documents).

What is Delve?

Delve is a Ruby on Rails application which sits upon your network, and provides document services from there. It currently handles scanning new documents, and will eventually support image/document upload, Optical Character Recognition (through Tesseract), and more (see the Feature requests)

Scanning

Delve uses the SANE library to handle scanning your documents. This means Delve can acquire images from scanners shared on the network as well as those connected to the machine Delve is running on (this makes it very easy to run Delve in a virtual machine).

Storage

Once scanned, the image (or Page, in Delve terms) is stored inside Delve itself. Pages can then be built up into Documents (a collection of Pages). Documents can be given a Title, a Location, and a set of Tags.

Searching

Searching is limited in Delve today (see #7) but there is a Tag Cloud at the top of the Documents page to help you find the document you're looking for.

Installation

Delve is not currently packaged for any operating systems. See Installation for how to set up the source code. Once you've done that, see User Guide for getting started with Delve.

Credits

Delve is an app by Greg Sutcliffe(blog), built on Open Source technologies (see LICENSE). See the Contributors list for the list of people who graciously helped me.

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