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+Options can be configured :
+```yaml
+GUID: user
+GPID: user
+ocrlang: Any language can be set from this page (always three letters) [here](https://tesseract-ocr.github.io/tessdoc/Data-Files#data-files-for-version-400-november-29-2016).
+localdisks: sda1 #put the hardware name of your drive to mount separated by commas, or its label. Ex: sda1, sdb1, MYNAS...
+networkdisks: "<//SERVER/SHARE>" # list of smbv2/3 servers to mount (optional)
+cifsusername: "username" # smb username (optional)
+cifspassword: "password" # smb password (optional)
+CONFIG_LOCATION : Custom env variables : can be added to the config.yaml file referenced in the addon options. Full env variables can be found here : https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-paperless-ng. It must be entered in a valid yaml format, that is verified at launch of the addon.
+```
+
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