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jonaswinkler
paperless-ng
Python2021–2023
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paperless-ng

A supercharged version of paperless: scan, index and archive all your physical documents

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0Explicit recommenders
5.4KGitHub stars
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A supercharged version of paperless: scan, index and archive all your physical documents

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Observed mentions: 2021-01-31 09:52:05 UTC to 2023-11-29 16:57:54 UTC.

02462021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 7 mentions; 3 submissions, 4 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2023

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20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303

What Hacker News says

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A SaaS for managing personal documents. The closest I have right now (not SaaS) is paperless-ng[0], but I have to self-host it, unless I missed a really compelling solution. I have a sea of documents, both physical and electronic, and it's always a struggle to scan/organize/find them. I'd pay good money for a software/service that manages my documents, from scanning to archiving. [0] https://github.com/jonaswinkler/paperless-ng
In Ask HN: What have you built more than twice and wish someone had built for you?
Paperless ng Make your scanner put files in a place that Paperless can read them, then Paperless OCRs the file, makes it searchable, somehow finds the date of the documents, auto tags if you have it setup, and basically is a dream. I don't organize them anymore, if I need an old document I search for some text in it or by date. https://github.com/jonaswinkler/paperless-ng There is a newer Paperless ngx that I have to upgrade to at some point.
In Digitally sign PDF files from your commandline – open-pdf-sign
Paperless-ng (https://github.com/jonaswinkler/paperless-ng) is the way to go. I have an instance of it running on a RPI 4 and a network attached scanner. New documents that I need stored are either immediately scanned using the app on my phone (And its free software, get it from FDroid) or via the actual scanner which obviously gives better quality. Paperless then OCRs the documents and stores the original and a PDF/A version for long term archival. It learns from my tagging and classification and auto classifies them in the future. The web interface is also pretty slick and allows you to do full text search on all your documents really fast. Tagging and categories is also a more superior form of organisation than simple folders.
In Ask HN: What do you use for your personal document hell?
I've been using paperless-ng for a while. https://github.com/jonaswinkler/paperless-ng I have a Samba share that I added as a destination on my network scanner. I then tag them, add a correspondent, and never think about them again. PDFs that are sent to me are just uploaded and tagged the same way. The paper copies are then thrown into a box in hopes I never need the originals. I back up the document storage regularly.
In Ask HN: How do you manage your personal documents?
There apparently also is paperless-ng: https://github.com/jonaswinkler/paperless-ng And this slightly older FileBasedMiniDMS: https://github.com/stweiss/FileBasedMiniDMS I tried both Mayan and Paperless (regular) myself to replace my Evernote Premium setup, they haven't convinced me yet. I am currently trying out https://github.com/jbarlow83/OCRmyPDF myself (had to fork it to add my own language to the Dockerfile) and then will either let my NAS index it afterwards or Dropbox/Nextcloud maybe. Apparently locally they get indexed very well with either Gnome (Linux) or Finder (Mac) or Explorer (Windows).
In Ask HN: Which document management system with OCR do you use?

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