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Self-Hosting Paperless-ngx: Digital Document Management

Paperless-ngx scans, OCRs, and organizes your documents. Go paperless with intelligent tagging and full-text search.

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What Is Paperless-ngx?


Paperless-ngx consumes your documents, OCRs them, and organizes them into a searchable archive. Scan a document, drop it in, and it's automatically categorized.


How It Works


1. Drop documents into the consumption folder (or email them)

2. Paperless-ngx OCRs the document

3. Machine learning suggests tags, correspondents, and document types

4. Documents are stored and indexed for full-text search


Features


Document Processing

  • OCR with Tesseract (100+ languages)
  • PDF, PNG, JPG, TIFF support
  • Barcode-based document splitting
  • Email consumption

    • Organization

  • Auto-tagging with machine learning
  • Correspondents (who sent/created it)
  • Document types (invoice, receipt, letter)
  • Custom fields
  • Date detection

    • Search

  • Full-text search across all documents
  • Filter by tags, dates, correspondents
  • Saved views
  • Similar document suggestions

    • Workflow

  • Email consumption (auto-import from email)
  • Scanner integration
  • Mobile upload
  • Bulk editing

    • Deployment


    1. Deploy Paperless-ngx on TinyPod

    2. Configure consumption folder

    3. Start dropping documents

    4. Train the ML model by correcting initial suggestions


    Resources: 2 CPU, 1 GB RAM (OCR is CPU-intensive).


    After a few weeks of training, Paperless-ngx correctly categorizes 90%+ of new documents automatically.