diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 4e65c3b1..2bc1f880 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -19,8 +19,27 @@ As a last step texts can be loaded into an information retrieval system to query
 ## Configuration and startup
 
 1. **Create Docker swarm:**
+
+The following part is for **users** and not the development team. The development team uses a script which sets up a local development swarm.
+
 The generated computational workload is handled by a [Docker](https://docs.docker.com/) swarm. A swarm is a group of machines that are running Docker and joined into a cluster. It consists out of two different kinds of members, managers and workers. Currently it is not possible to specify a dedicated Docker host, instead Opaque expects the executing system to be a swarm manager of a cluster with at least one dedicated worker machine. The swarm setup process is described best in the [Docker documentation](https://docs.docker.com/engine/swarm/swarm-tutorial/).
+
+The dev team can use dind_swarm_setup.sh. If the workers cannot join the manager node. Try opening the following ports using the ubuntu firewall ufw:
+```bash
+sudo ufw allow 2376/tcp \
+&& sudo ufw allow 7946/udp \
+&& sudo ufw allow 7946/tcp \
+&& sudo ufw allow 80/tcp \
+&& sudo ufw allow 2377/tcp \
+&& sudo ufw allow 4789/udp
+
+sudo ufw reload && sudo ufw enable
+sudo systemctl restart docker
+```
+
 2. **Create a network storage:**
+The dind_swarm_setup.sh script handles this step for the dev team aswell.
+
 A shared network space is necessary so that all swarm members have access to all the data. To achieve this a [Samba](https://www.samba.org/) can be used.
 ``` bash
 # Example: Create a Samba share via Docker
@@ -55,7 +74,7 @@ $ <YOUR EDITOR> nopaque.env # Fill out the empty variables within this file.
 ``` bash
 # Execute the following 3 steps only on first startup
 $ docker-compose run web flask db upgrade
-$ docker-compose run web flask db insert-initial-database-entries
+$ docker-compose run web flask insert-initial-database-entries
 $ docker-compose down
 
 $ docker-compose up
diff --git a/app/jobs/forms.py b/app/jobs/forms.py
index 82e574b6..ddf9a917 100644
--- a/app/jobs/forms.py
+++ b/app/jobs/forms.py
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ class AddNLPJobForm(FlaskForm):
                           choices=[('2.2.0', 'Latest (2.2.0)'),
                                    ('2.2.0', '2.2.0')],
                           validators=[DataRequired()])
+    check_encoding = BooleanField('Check encoding')
 
     def validate_files(form, field):
         for file in field.data:
diff --git a/app/services/views.py b/app/services/views.py
index 971a1868..875ff700 100644
--- a/app/services/views.py
+++ b/app/services/views.py
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ from werkzeug.utils import secure_filename
 from . import services
 import json
 import os
+from app import logger
 
 
 SERVICES = {'corpus_analysis': {'name': 'Corpus analysis'},
@@ -36,7 +37,12 @@ def service(service):
             return make_response(add_job_form.errors, 400)
         service_args = []
         if service == 'nlp':
+            logger.warning(add_job_form.check_encoding)
             service_args.append('-l {}'.format(add_job_form.language.data))
+            logger.warning("Service args: {}".format(service_args))
+            if add_job_form.check_encoding.data:
+                service_args.append('--check-encoding')
+                logger.warning("Service args: {}".format(service_args))
         if service == 'ocr':
             service_args.append('-l {}'.format(add_job_form.language.data))
             if not add_job_form.binarization.data:
diff --git a/app/templates/services/nlp.html.j2 b/app/templates/services/nlp.html.j2
index 4c4c0b13..300dbba0 100644
--- a/app/templates/services/nlp.html.j2
+++ b/app/templates/services/nlp.html.j2
@@ -101,6 +101,18 @@
             </div>
           </div>
         </div>
+        <div class="row">
+          <div class="col s12 m6">
+              <span class="card-title">Check Encoding</span>
+              <p>If the input files are not created with the nopaque OCR service and you do not know if your tex files are UTF-8 encoded, check this switch. We will try to automatically determine the right encoding for your texts.</p>
+              <div class="switch">
+                <label>
+                  {{ add_job_form.check_encoding() }}
+                  <span class="lever"></span>
+                </label>
+              </div>
+          </div>
+        </div>
       </div>
       <div class="card-action right-align">
         <button class="btn waves-effect waves-light" id="submit" name="submit" type="submit">Submit<i class="material-icons right">send</i></button>