Autofile Documentation

Autofile is a self-hosted document management application. It stores document files in S3-compatible object storage, keeps structured metadata in PostgreSQL, and provides a React web UI backed by a Rust API.

Alpha software

Autofile is relatively stable, but it is still alpha software. Expect breaking changes as installation, administration, and document-processing workflows continue to mature.

What Autofile Provides

• Upload and manage document files.
• Organize documents with cabinets and tags.
• Define document types and metadata types.
• Build document indexes and reusable index templates.
• Run classifier blocks for classification workflows.
• Store files in S3-compatible object storage such as MinIO.
• Process previews, text, OCR, and thumbnails through background jobs.
• Manage users with JWT and cookie-based authentication.

Quick Links

• Quick Start
• Create the First User
• Configuration
• Development
• API Reference

Architecture

Autofile is built as two containers:

• autofile-api: Rust/Axum API, background workers, PostgreSQL migrations, S3 file storage, and document processing tools.
• autofile-ui: React/Vite frontend served by nginx.

The supporting services are PostgreSQL, Redis, and S3-compatible object storage.