Paperless: Suggestion: Enable document_consumer command to be run from webinterface

[Sblop]

Hi Daniel,

I love this project and have migrated basically all of our documents to this. So first of a big thanks.

This is not so much an issue, but more as a suggestion:
I only use the CLI interface whenever I need to add docs. Paperless does not parse my docs automatically so after adding enough docs I frequently log into the CLI to run manage.py document_consumer command... Wouldn't it be an idea to add a button in the web interface which sole purpose is to start the consumer?

/Benjamin

[erikarvstedt]

One of the main goals of paperless is that document importing should be automatic and reliable, so you should never be forced to import docs manually.

Maybe your problem is related to this issue.
What's your setup?
Try running the consumer with the option --no-inotify. Does that help?

[denellum]

I understand why this would be wanted :
My set up, i scan directly to my consumer directory.
I then go edit the naming convention IN the consumer directory.
Then would like to run the consumer, that way i'd not need either of the following :
a 2nd location to FTP things to from my scanner, OR have to log in via SSH to run the consumer.

I am working on this, ill have an UGLY version of the code here soon. I am currently testing it now.

[erikarvstedt]

denellum, just save your docs in consume/subdir and later move them to consume/ or save them as mydoc.jpg.ignore and rename them to mydoc-with-naming.jpg to consume them.

[danielquinn]

Thanks to @erikarvstedt for poking their head in on this one. For the record, this isn't something I'm likely to ever add to Paperless as (as @erikarvstedt pointed out) it goes against the primary goal of the project: to limit the required amount of interaction.

I'm going to close this one, but if someone has a terribly compelling reason they think will change my mind, I'm happy to have the discussion.