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Now what?  Paperless mode is an Emacs major mode designed\nto assist with the filing of scanned documents into a hierarchy of\nfolders.\n\n![alt text](paperless-shot.png \"Screenshot of paperless mode\")\n\nPaperless mode provides PDF document previews, ido-based target\ndirectory completion, and simple batch filing commands designed to\nsimplify and speed the filing of all of your scanned documents.\n\nHere's how it works...\n\n### Step 1\n\nScan your documents and dump them into a holding directory.  Set the\nvariable `paperless-capture-directory` to reference this directory.\nUse `M-x customize-variable` to set this string.\n\n### Step 2\n\nTell paperless-mode where to file the documents by setting\n`paperless-root-directory` with `M-x customize-variable`, or you can\nset both variables in your `~/.emacs/init.el` like so:\n\n```lisp\n(custom-set-variables\n '(paperless-capture-directory \"/home/green/CAPTURE\")\n '(paperless-root-directory \"/home/green/Documents\"))\n```\n\nUnder `paperless-root-directory`, create a hierarchy of directories that\nmakes sense for you.  For example, you might create directories to\nsort documents like so:\n\n```\n[paperless-root-directory]/Finance\n                             /Taxes\n                                /2015\n                                /2016\n                             /Insurance\n                                /Car\n                                /Home\n                             /Work\n                                /Expenses\n                                   /2016-FOSDEM\n                                   /20170102-NYC\n                                   /20170202-SFO\n                          /Medical\n                             /Receipts\n                                /2016\n                                /2017\n                          /Utilities\n                             /Mobile\n                             /Electricity\n```\n\nAt the time of this writing, the author's directory tree contains over\n620 folders.\n\n### Step 3\n\nOnce loaded, start paperless with `M-x paperless` and you'll be\npresented with the list of PDF files in `paperless-capture-directory`.\nUse the `[SPC]` key to open PDF preview buffers.  The `-`, `+`, `=`\nand `0` keys will adjust the scale of the preview, just as they do in\nDocView or PDFView mode.  Use the `r` key to rename the file.  If you\nomit a filename extention, paperless will append \".pdf\" to your new\nfilename.  Use the `f` key to select the destination directory.  Use\nthe `d` key to mark the file for deletion.  Deletion always moves the\nfile to the system trash folder (emacs's `move-file-to-trash`).  Use\nthe `g` key to rescan the directory hierarchy under\n`paperless-root-directory` for new or deleted folders.  Files aren't\nrenamed, moved or deleted until you select the `x` key.\n\n### Org Mode Integration\n\nPaperless features basic Org mode integration as well.  Org links\nstored while in paperless mode point to the appropriate target file\nlocation.  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