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

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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.
Ask HN: What do you use for your personal document hell? | Feb 2022
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.

Ask HN: What do you use for your personal document hell? | Feb 2022
I'm in the process of setting up paperless-ng.

https://github.com/jonaswinkler/paperless-ng

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I think you're looking for something like paperless-ng. https://github.com/jonaswinkler/paperless-ng
Ask HN: How do you manage your personal documents? | Nov 2021
check out paperless and get a document scanner. Really helps https://github.com/jonaswinkler/paperless-ng
Ask HN: How do you manage your personal documents? | Nov 2021
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.

Ask HN: Which document management system with OCR do you use? | Jan 2021
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).