Paperless-ngx is a document management system that transforms your physical documents into a searchable online archive so you can keep, well, less paper.
Paperless-ngx forked from paperless-ng to continue the great work and distribute responsibility of supporting and advancing the project among a team of people. Consider joining us! Discussion of this transition can be found in issues #1599 and #1632.
A demo is available at demo.paperless-ngx.com using login demo / demo. Note: demo content is reset frequently and confidential information should not be uploaded.
- Organize and index your scanned documents with tags, correspondents, types, and more.
- Performs OCR on your documents, adds selectable text to image only documents and adds tags, correspondents and document types to your documents.
- Supports PDF documents, images, plain text files, and Office documents (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and LibreOffice equivalents).
- Office document support is optional and provided by Apache Tika (see configuration)
- Paperless stores your documents plain on disk. Filenames and folders are managed by paperless and their format can be configured freely.
- Single page application front end.
- Includes a dashboard that shows basic statistics and has document upload.
- Filtering by tags, correspondents, types, and more.
- Customizable views can be saved and displayed on the dashboard.
- Full text search helps you find what you need.
- Auto completion suggests relevant words from your documents.
- Results are sorted by relevance to your search query.
- Highlighting shows you which parts of the document matched the query.
- Searching for similar documents ("More like this")
- Email processing: Paperless adds documents from your email accounts.
- Configure multiple accounts and filters for each account.
- When adding documents from mail, paperless can move these mail to a new folder, mark them as read, flag them as important or delete them.
- Machine learning powered document matching.
- Paperless-ngx learns from your documents and will be able to automatically assign tags, correspondents and types to documents once you've stored a few documents in paperless.
- Optimized for multi core systems: Paperless-ngx consumes multiple documents in parallel.
- The integrated sanity checker makes sure that your document archive is in good health.
- More screenshots are available in the documentation.
The easiest way to deploy paperless is docker-compose. The files in the /docker/compose directory are configured to pull the image from Github Packages.
If you'd like to jump right in, you can configure a docker-compose environment with our install script:
bash -c "$(curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx/main/install-paperless-ngx.sh)"Alternatively, you can install the dependencies and setup apache and a database server yourself. The documentation has a step by step guide on how to do it.
Migrating from Paperless-ng is easy, just drop in the new docker image! See the documentation on migrating for more details.
The documentation for Paperless-ngx is available at https://docs.paperless-ngx.com.
If you feel like contributing to the project, please do! Bug fixes, enhancements, visual fixes etc. are always welcome. If you want to implement something big: Please start a discussion about that! The documentation has some basic information on how to get started.
People interested in continuing the work on paperless-ngx are encouraged to reach out here on github and in the Matrix Room. If you would like to contribute to the project on an ongoing basis there are multiple teams (frontend, ci/cd, etc) that could use your help so please reach out!
Paperless-ngx is available in many languages that are coordinated on Crowdin. If you want to help out by translating paperless-ngx into your language, please head over to https://crwd.in/paperless-ngx, and thank you! More details can be found in CONTRIBUTING.md.
Feature requests can be submitted via GitHub Discussions, you can search for existing ideas, add your own and vote for the ones you care about.
For bugs please open an issue or start a discussion if you have questions.
Paperless has been around for a while now, and people have built tools that interact with it. If you're one of them, please reach out and we can add your project to the list. Current projects include:
- Mobile
- Paperless App: An Android/iOS application for Paperless-ngx.
- Paperless Mobile: A modern, feature rich Android app for Paperless-ngx.
- Paperless Share: Share any files from your Android application with Paperless-ngx. Very simple, but works with all mobile scanning apps that allow you to share scanned documents.
- Desktop
- Scan to Paperless: Scan and prepare (crop, deskew, OCR, ...) your documents for use in Paperless-ngx.
Document scanners are typically used to scan sensitive documents like your social insurance number, tax records, invoices, etc. Paperless-ngx should never be run on an untrusted host because information is stored in clear text without encryption. No guarantees are made regarding security (but we do try!) and you use the app at your own risk. The safest way to run Paperless-ngx is on a local server in your own home with backups in place.