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Paperless-ngx Has a Free Document Management — OCR, Full-Text Search, and Auto-Tagging for Your Files

Paper documents pile up. Bank statements, tax forms, receipts, contracts — all in a drawer or scattered across folders. Finding that one receipt from 2023? Good luck.

Paperless-ngx scans, OCRs, and organizes every document automatically. Drop a PDF or scan a paper document, and it extracts text, auto-tags it, and makes it searchable. Self-hosted, free forever.

What You Get Free

GPL licensed:

  • OCR — extract text from scanned PDFs and images
  • Full-text search — find any document by content
  • Auto-tagging — ML classifies documents automatically
  • Correspondents — track who sent/received documents
  • Document types — categorize (invoice, receipt, contract)
  • Email consumption — auto-import documents from email
  • Mobile scanning — scan with phone, upload directly
  • Dashboard — overview of recent and pending documents
  • Audit trail — track who viewed/edited documents

Quick Start

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx/main/docker/compose/docker-compose.sqlite.yml
mv docker-compose.sqlite.yml docker-compose.yml
docker compose up -d
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Drop PDFs into the consumption folder. Paperless OCRs, tags, and indexes them automatically.

What You Can Build

1. Personal document vault — every receipt, contract searchable forever.
2. Business filing — invoices auto-tagged by vendor, date, amount.
3. Tax prep — find all deductible receipts in seconds.
4. Legal docs — contracts with audit trail.
5. Family records — medical, insurance, school documents in one place.


Need document automation? Email spinov001@gmail.com

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