Documents

Documents Module

The documents module provides a complete electronic document management system (DMS) with OCR and cloud storage.

Main models

• Document — Uploaded file with metadata
• Dossier — Folder tree for organisation
• VersionDocument — Document version history
• Tag — Labels for cross-cutting classification

Features

• Upload — Drag-and-drop files, multiple upload
• Built-in OCR — Automatic text extraction from images and PDFs
• Full-text search — Search through OCR-extracted content
• Semantic search — Similarity search via embeddings (pgvector)
• Versioning — Complete modification history
• Preview — PDF, image and Office document previews
• S3 storage — All files stored in MinIO via django-storages

Nextcloud integration

The documents module integrates with Nextcloud for:

• Shared storage — MinIO as common S3 backend
• SSO — Single sign-on via OIDC (Django provider)
• Sync — File access from the Nextcloud client
• Collaboration — File sharing between users

Interactions

• Accounting — Attachments to journal entries
• Invoicing — Storage of generated invoice PDFs
• Payroll — Archival of pay slips
• Editor — Open documents in OnlyOffice
• AI Chat — The chat can search through documents