Document Compass 🧭

Intelligent Document Organization & Discovery Platform

Document Compass is an open-source platform that helps organizations intelligently organize, discover, and utilize their documents through AI-powered similarity matching and smart grouping. Built with both enterprise and nonprofit use cases in mind, it specifically addresses challenges in low-bandwidth environments and offers integration with popular cloud storage providers.

🎯 Project Goals

Primary Objectives

• Enable intelligent document discovery across large document collections
• Reduce time spent searching for related documents by 70%
• Make document management accessible in low-bandwidth environments
• Provide actionable insights through document summarization and grouping
• Integrate seamlessly with existing cloud storage solutions

Target Users

• Nonprofits managing program documentation
• Organizations with distributed teams
• Educational institutions organizing learning materials
• Research teams managing related papers and studies
• Any team struggling with document discovery and organization

🌟 Key Features

Core Functionality

• Smart Document Grouping: Automatically identify and group similar documents
• Intelligent Summarization: Generate concise summaries at multiple detail levels
• Low-Bandwidth Optimization: Compressed previews and progressive loading
• Cloud Storage Integration: Native support for Google Drive and Dropbox
• Flexible Search: Find documents by content, metadata, or similarity

Technical Highlights

• Machine learning-powered similarity detection
• Efficient document vectorization and indexing
• Scalable architecture supporting millions of documents
• REST API for easy integration
• Containerized deployment for simple scaling

🛠 Technology Stack

Backend

• Python 3.9+
• FastAPI for REST API
• Sentence Transformers for document embedding
• PostgreSQL for metadata storage
• Redis for caching

Frontend

• React 18+
• Next.js for server-side rendering
• TailwindCSS for styling
• ShadcnUI for components

Infrastructure

• Docker for containerization
• GitHub Actions for CI/CD
• Fly.io for deployment
• MinIO for object storage

📋 Prerequisites

# Backend
Python 3.9+
PostgreSQL 13+
Redis 6+

# Frontend
Node.js 18+
npm 8+

# Infrastructure
Docker 20.10+
docker-compose 2.0+

🚀 Quick Start

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/opportunity-hack/document-compass.git

# Install dependencies
cd document-compass
pip install -r requirements.txt
cd packages/interface && npm install

# Set up environment
cp .env.example .env
# Edit .env with your configurations

# Start development environment
docker-compose up -d

# Run migrations
python manage.py migrate

# Start backend
python manage.py runserver

# Start frontend (new terminal)
cd packages/interface && npm run dev

📊 Project Structure

document-compass/
├── packages/
│   ├── core/              # Core similarity engine
│   ├── navigator/         # Search & grouping
│   ├── api/              # FastAPI application
│   └── interface/        # React frontend
├── docs/                 # Documentation
├── examples/             # Usage examples
├── tests/               # Test suites
└── deployment/          # Deployment configs

🤝 Contributing

We welcome contributions! See our Contributing Guide for details.

Development Process

1. Fork the repository
2. Create a feature branch
3. Commit your changes
4. Push to the branch
5. Create a Pull Request

Code Quality Standards

• 100% test coverage for core functionality
• Type hints for Python code
• ESLint compliance for JavaScript/TypeScript
• Comprehensive documentation

📈 Roadmap

Phase 1

As a user, I would like to be able to upload and/or sync documents within Google Drive. I would like the documents contained within the app to show me which ones are similar to one another and try to group them into folders based on similarity.

• Core similarity engine
• Basic document grouping
• Google Drive integration
• Initial API release

Phase 2

As a product manager, I would like to use either Dropbox or Google Drive - this enables the most common cloud drive platforms to use what we have built. As a user, I would like to have my documents summarized and then easily searched. I would also like to use this application from my mobile device.

• Dropbox integration
• Advanced summarization
• Batch processing
• Mobile-responsive UI

Phase 3 TODO - update this

• Enterprise features
• Advanced permission system
• Custom ML model training
• API rate limiting

Phase 4 TODO - update this

• Additional storage providers
• Advanced analytics
• Workflow automation
• Enterprise SSO

📊 Success Metrics

We track the following metrics to measure project success:

User Impact

• Document discovery time reduction
• Bandwidth savings
• User engagement with summaries
• Group accuracy rates

Technical Performance

• API response times
• Processing speed
• System uptime
• Error rates

🔒 Security

• JWT-based authentication
• Role-based access control
• Document encryption at rest
• Regular security audits
• GDPR compliance built-in

📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

🙏 Acknowledgments

Special thanks to:

• The Opportunity Hack community
• Our open-source contributors
• Organizations providing valuable feedback

📞 Contact

• Project Link: https://github.com/opportunity-hack/document-compass
• Discussion Forum: GitHub Discussions
• Issue Tracker: GitHub Issues

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