diff --git a/doxyfile b/doxyfile
index f8a14c966115e6e98cb5a3c4694daf98e98f0298..082c0a30c8e6dc1fe5607d09006be0c796648011 100644
--- a/doxyfile
+++ b/doxyfile
@@ -790,7 +790,8 @@ WARN_LOGFILE           =
 # spaces. See also FILE_PATTERNS and EXTENSION_MAPPING
 # Note: If this tag is empty the current directory is searched.
 
-INPUT                  = src
+INPUT                  = src \
+                         README.md
 
 # This tag can be used to specify the character encoding of the source files
 # that doxygen parses. Internally doxygen uses the UTF-8 encoding. Doxygen uses
@@ -982,7 +983,7 @@ FILTER_SOURCE_PATTERNS =
 # (index.html). This can be useful if you have a project on for instance GitHub
 # and want to reuse the introduction page also for the doxygen output.
 
-USE_MDFILE_AS_MAINPAGE = 
+USE_MDFILE_AS_MAINPAGE = README.md
 
 #---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Configuration options related to source browsing