Curated Paperless-NGX Install

[Nukra]

Down the Road, it would be really awesome if we would get a curated installation for Paperless-NGX! 

 https://docs.paperless-ngx.com/

Paperless is a really awesome Document Management System for all sorts of things.

Paperless have lots of Small Features like full OCR  and full in document text search. With a Duplex scanner, you can easly backup ALL of your paper documents and have them automatically sorted - a perfect companion for HexOS that aims to make digital backups a breeze! With a Curated and easy install, it could also help to backup analog paper 🙂

[SetLucas]

Paperless-ngx is a great one, yeah. Docspell is another option with better user support, more features, but doesnt support file versioning.

I think both are equally valuable, and a big reason I think this is a big fit for hexos, is how powerful these applications are for the average user. theyre both pretty simple and polished after setup.

Edited December 5, 2024 by SetLucas

[qlkgwgjxoi]

Paperless-ngx is great! Especially since "retail"/not self hosted alternative are sparse and often rather expensive (at least in the experience of a relative that eat it up, when I told him about it, but wouldn't be able to set it up himself on a home server)

[hovig]

Oh yeah would be awesome. 

[robomato]

i am waiting for that

[Philipp Engelmann]

would love to see that

[hovig]

any official reaction until yet? 🙂 

[Kukivu]

+1 for Paperless-ngx ! I would love to see that.

[Soid]

Wow, I'd never heard of that before, but it looks awesome. Something like that would provide the motivation for going through my box of 10 year old documents that I've not bothered to digitize yet. 

[Todd Miller]

So the difference between this and say the core Nextcloud or Opencloud is Paperless ngx isn't just storing documents.  It's also scanning them and allowing filtering based on filters?  Or do I have to scan a document first so each file is a single page?

[Terrence]

I haven't used Nextcloud or Opencloud but I imagine their file management solutions are similar to Google Drive.

Paperless-NGX is like the "more advanced organization" option compared to Google Drive from my point of view.

Paperless allows you to ingest documents through a variety of means (upload button, watched folder, reading emails and automatically saving attachments or the email based on rules).

Then it tries to apply machine learning to extract the document date and other info like who the document is regarding, what kind of document it is, where it should be stored, all based on what you have manually added metadata for. If I have a receipts document type, it will learn what I consider a receipt and assign that automatically.

It also OCRs all the documents and stores the text so it's searchable later.

You can add custom metadata fields like a global document ID (I'm told).

You can then search, view, organize, share these documents in the paperless web UI.

You can customize how it stores all these documents on disk so you can still access them outside of Paperless if you want.

There are a few apps that allow direct "scan to paperless" functionality with decent cropping.

 

You don't scan documents so each page is a file. You ingest a PDF with multiple pages normally so you would scan with your phone or a scanner, then import to paperless. Though you can ingest images and other stuff.

Edited 2 hours ago by Terrence
answer missed question directly