What does HackerNews think of paperless-ngx?

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

Language: Python

Ask HN: How do you manage your “family data warehouse”? | Sep 2023
A Synology NAS running Portainer (https://www.portainer.io/) running Paperless NGX (https://github.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx)

This works better than I can possibly tell you.

I have an Epson WorkForce ES-580W that I bought when my mother passed away to bulk scan documents and it scans everything, double-sided if required, multi-page PDFs if required, at very high speed and uploads everything to OneDrive, at which point I drag and drop everything into Paperless.

I could, thinking about it, have the scanner email stuff to Paperless. Might investigate that today.

Paperless will OCR it and make it all searchable. This setup is amazing, I love living in the future.

Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off | Jul 2023
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If you're willing to self-host, I've found Paperless to be quite good:

https://github.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx
Hermes: An open-source document management system | Jan 2023
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It seems like it manages some metadata around google docs, but google docs is doing all the heavy lifting (creating/editing/sharing documents). Which begs the question, why?

By titling itself as a document management system I would assume it would be something like paperless-ngx[0] or mayan edms[1]. The latter of which has a built in workflow system[2].

But by being tied to google docs you can't really self host the important parts

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0: https://github.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx

1: https://gitlab.com/mayan-edms/mayan-edms

2: https://docs.mayan-edms.com/chapters/workflows.html
Ask HN: What have you built more than twice and wish someone had built for you? | Jan 2023
For anybody interested in paperless-ng, this is line 1 of their repo's readme:

This project is not dead! Rather, this project is now maintained as a community effort at https://github.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx, a direct continuation of this project and drop-in replacement. Please see their project page and the documentation at https://docs.paperless-ngx.com/ for details.

I really like Paperless NGX, have been using it for some months now, mostly for scanned paper mail, I use [0]

[0]: https://apps.apple.com/in/app/scan4paperless/id1629964055