paperless-ngx
paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx
Turn your paper documents into searchable digital archives, say goodbye to piles of bills and contracts, making finding files as easy as searching the web.
A community-supported supercharged document management system: scan, index and archive all your documents
AI Summary
What This Project Does
It is a self-hosted document management system that automatically turns your scanned paper documents into searchable digital archives.
What Problems It Solves
Solves the pain points of hard-to-find and easily lost paper documents, replacing the traditional method of digging through boxes for invoices and contracts; simply search keywords to locate files.
Who It's For
Suitable for home users with lots of paper documents, freelancers, small business owners, and geeks who like to control their own data.
Typical Use Cases
1. Manage paper bills like household utilities and insurance policies.
2. Archive work contracts, invoices, and reimbursement vouchers.
3. Turn old books or notes into searchable e-book libraries after scanning.
Key Strengths & Highlights
Supports automatic OCR text recognition, auto-tags and classifies documents, fully private deployment with no data uploaded to the cloud, and active community maintenance.
Getting Started Requirements
Requires basic Docker deployment skills, no coding needed, but you need a server or NAS to run it.
Purpose
Suitable for users wanting to go paperless and valuing privacy, not for those who just want to store images without setting up a server.
Category
Tech Stack
Project Info
- Primary Language
- Python
- Default Branch
- dev
- License
- GPL-3.0
- Homepage
- http://docs.paperless-ngx.com/
- Created
- Feb 12, 2022
- Last Commit
- 1 months ago
- Last Push
- 1 months ago
- Indexed
- Apr 19, 2026