Introduction

Docbox is a modern, multi-tenant file management, processing, and search platform designed to seamlessly integrate into your application. It provides powerful capabilities for securely storing, processing, and retrieving documents.

Docbox is designed to run behind your main service, where your application acts as a proxy, forwarding requests to Docbox after performing authentication and access control. This keeps the core service secure and private.

Files, folders, and links are organized into logical groups called Document Boxes. Each Document Box is uniquely identified by a scope string (e.g. user:xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx:files). The scope is embedded directly in the URL (e.g. /box/user:xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx:files/file/xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx), enabling efficient and reliable access control without requiring inspecting requests beyond the request path.