Paperless is a simple Django application running in two parts, a Consumer (the thing that does the indexing) and a Web server (the part that lets you search & download already-indexed documents). Paper is a nightmare. Environmental issues aside, there’s no excuse for it in the 21st century. It takes up space, collects dust, doesn’t support any form of a search feature, indexing is tedious, it’s heavy and prone to damage & loss. I wrote this to make “going paperless” easier. I do not have to worry about finding stuff again. I feed documents right from the post box into the scanner and then shred them. Perhaps you might find it useful too. Paperless-ng is a fork of the original paperless project. It changes many things both on the surface and under the hood. Paperless-ng was created because I feel that these changes are too big to be pushed into the main repository right away.
Features
- 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)
- 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
- Full text search helps you find what you need
- Email processing, Paperless adds documents from your email accounts
Project Samples
