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-docs
-====
+Sismics Docs
+============
+
+![](http://www.sismics.com/docs/img/docs.jpg)
+
+What is Docs?
+---------------
+
+Docs is an open source, lightweight document management system.
+
+Docs is written in Java, and may be run on any operating system with Java support.
+
+Features
+--------
+
+- Responsive user interface
+- Optical characted recognition
+- Support image and PDF files
+- Flexible search engine
+- Full text search in image and PDF
+- Tag system
+- Multi-users
+- Document sharing
+- RESTful Web API
+
+License
+-------
+
+Reader is released under the terms of the GPL license. See `COPYING` for more
+information or see <http://opensource.org/licenses/GPL-2.0>.
+
+How to build Docs from the sources
+------------------------------------
+
+Prerequisites: JDK 7, Maven 3
+
+Docs is organized in several Maven modules:
+
+  - docs-parent
+  - docs-core
+  - docs-web
+  - docs-web-common
+
+First off, clone the repository: `git clone git://github.com/sismics/docs.git`
+or download the sources from GitHub.
+
+#### Launch the build
+
+From the `docs-parent` directory:
+
+    mvn clean -DskipTests install
+
+#### Run a stand-alone version
+
+From the `docs-web` directory:
+
+    mvn jetty:run
+
+#### Build a .war to deploy to your servlet container
+
+From the `docs-web` directory:
+
+    mvn -Pprod -DskipTests clean install
+
+You will get your deployable WAR in the `target` directory.