fmfm: fast minimum file manager

A web-based document manager/viewer upon Flask+Python. Currently PDF, zip file (of images), markdown and epub documents are supported.

This is still in beta stage and the code is not secure. Please do not use this on public servers.

For what?

• To collect all the books into a one place
• To read books using only web browsers
• To handle right-to-left format books (Japanese manga and vertical writing 縦書き) correctly
• To find sentences from all the stored documents at once (full text search)

List view

Clicking thumbnail opens the viewer. The right bottom "PDF" badge jumps into the original file. Document tagging and searching are supported.

Viewer

Tiny HTML-based document viewer is included. Capabilities:

• Single page / Spread view
• Show pages in Left-to-right or Right-to-left format (select by metadata edit)
• One page shifting (to correct facing page layout; shortcut: S key)
• Page forward and back by clicking left/right side, press left/right keys or mouse wheel scrolling

Epub reading is powered by Bibi. (This is a fantastic software!)

Search

Full-text search (PDF, epub and markdown)

日本語も検索可能です Japanese search is supported. (tokenizer: 2-gram)

(PDF only) Search hits are highligted in page view; also in-page search is possible. (shortcut: F key)

Edit metadata

• Edit menu is called from green button at bottom left on thumbnail.
• Multiple tags by separating them with a whitespace.
• r2l: the document is right-to-left (PDF and zip)
• spread: the document is shown in spread view (PDF and zip)
• hide: hides the document; it works, but currently the file found by search.

Other features

• Multi-file uploading
• Ignores already registered file when uploading (by MD5 hash)
• Tiny tool for batch processing (fmfm_util.py) is included.

• fmfm_util.py import ... to import all the files from inbox folder.
• fmfm_util.py remove 1 2 3 ... to remove specified books from DB.
• fmfm_util.py update 1 2 3 ... to update the metadata in the DB.
• fmfm_util.py update_title 1 2 3 ... to update the metadata, and title is replaced by the file's metadata.

Install and run

1. git clone this repository and cd into the folder
2. Modify SECRET_KEY to something random string in settings.py
3. Download Bibi-v1.2.0.zip from Bibi releases, unpack the file and move Bibi-v1.2.0 folder into static folder.

• Docker

1. Do docker-compose up -d
2. Access to http://localhost:8888 by a web browser.
3. You can stop the container by docker container stop fmfm-filemanager-python3-1.

• Linux (local)

1. pip install -r requirements.txt (You also need cmake and poppler-cpp package in a distro)
2. python server.py or bash run_fmfm_local.sh
3. Access to http://localhost:5000/ (Former) or http://localhost:8888/ (Latter) by a web browser.

Tips

• Caching images and passthrough static files by nginx improves the performance. See nginx_conf.sample for example.

Limitations and bugs

Overall

• The code is ugly, repeating phrases and not well-formatted ;(

Viewer

• PDF Viewer shows just an image, you cannot use browser's text search.
• PDF rendering is a bit heavy task, for SBCs like raspberry pi (RPi4 handles tasks well in my house though;)
• To suppress transfer size the result is compressed with JPEG, so the viewer shows lossy image.
• All the image is set to be cached. Please clear browser cache if you found odd behavior.
• Not all of markdown functionalities are supported.

Search

• Full-text search with tag search is not possible yet.
• Search by date will be (IMHO) implemented but not yet.

Upload

• Making index is a heavy task and sometimes a gateway timeout happens.