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+
+============================
+Documentation for picroscopy
+============================
+
+Picroscopy is a small Python web-application which is intended for usage with a
+`Raspberry Pi`_ as a microscopy solution. With the `Raspberry Pi Camera`_
+mounted on a microscope, the Raspberry Pi provides a live video feed to its
+monitor via HDMI, while another machine can be used to control the setup via a
+web-based interface.
+
+The project is written in `Python`_ 3 and is open-sourced under the `GPL
+license`_. Packages can be downloaded from the project `homepage`_. The `source
+code`_ can be obtained from GitHub. The `documentation`_ can be read on
+ReadTheDocs.
+
+
+Table of Contents
+=================
+
+.. toctree::
+   :maxdepth: 1
+   :numbered:
+
+   install
+   quickstart
+   usage
+   admin
+   commandline
+   configuration
+   faq
+   license
+
+
+
+Indices and tables
+==================
+
+* :ref:`genindex`
+* :ref:`modindex`
+* :ref:`search`
+
+
+
+.. _Raspberry Pi: http://www.raspberrypi.org/
+.. _Raspberry Pi Camera: http://www.raspberrypi.org/camera
+.. _homepage: https://www.waveform.org.uk/picroscopy/
+.. _documentation: http://picroscopy.readthedocs.org/
+.. _source code: https://github.com/waveform80/picroscopy.git
+.. _Python: http://python.org/
+.. _GPL license: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html