doocus — local document extraction
The document twin of meetus. Turns locally-downloaded files (Drive exports,
PDFs, images, ...) into a shareable textified product (content.md) plus
structured meta.json, mirroring the meetus output/<run>/ contract.
Extraction is deterministic and offline — no cloud AI touches the raw source. The textified output is what feeds permitted services (Gemini web, NotebookLM) and the local search index; the raw source stays on disk.
Quick start
# one document
python process_doc.py notes.docx # → docs-output/<YYYYMMDD-NNN-notes>/
python process_doc.py report.pdf --render # also render page 1 → thumb.jpg
python process_doc.py scan.png --ocr # OCR the image into content.md
# a whole downloaded folder (mirrors the input tree)
make docs IN="/mnt/win/drive" # → docs-output/...
make docs IN="..." DOC_EXTRA="--render --ocr"
make docs-dry IN="..." # list what would run
Output contract
docs-output/<YYYYMMDD-NNN-stem>/
content.md textified document — the shareable product
meta.json source info, sha256, dates, author, title, pages/sheets/slides, word_count, warnings
thumb.jpg optional single preview (image / rendered page / video frame)
manifest.json run config + outputs inventory + source pointer (path, not a copy)
Supported types
| Family | Extensions | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| text | md, txt, yaml/yml, json | passthrough; json/yaml add a structure summary |
| tabular | csv | markdown table + row/col metadata (stdlib) |
| office | docx, pptx, xlsx | text + core properties (author, dates, title) |
text per page + info dict; --render for page-1 thumb |
||
| web | html/htm | visible text + title/meta tags |
| image | jpg/jpeg, png | EXIF (incl. capture date) + thumbnail; --ocr for text |
| media | mp4 | ffprobe metadata + thumbnail; delegates transcription to meetus |
Each extractor is isolated: a missing optional dependency or a corrupt file is
recorded as a warning in meta.json, never aborting a batch (same resilience as
ctrl/batch.sh).
Dependencies
Core text/tabular use only the stdlib. Everything else is a uv group in the
repo's pyproject.toml:
uv sync --group doocus # Pillow, PyYAML, python-docx, python-pptx,
# openpyxl, pypdf, beautifulsoup4, lxml
uv sync --group doocus --group ocr # + pytesseract (needs system `tesseract`)
mp4 uses system ffmpeg/ffprobe (shared with meetus). PDF page rendering
(--render) additionally needs the pdf-render group (pdf2image) + system
poppler.
Browser UI
ui/doocus-app/ (sibling of ui/meetus-app/, shares ui/framework/) browses the
extracted docs with per-type viewers, a metadata panel, and a package builder
that zips the original file + content.md + meta.json per doc for a chosen
target (Gemini web / NotebookLM):
cd ui/doocus-app && npm install
DOOCUS_OUTPUT=/path/to/docs-output npm run dev