Paperless-ngx

A Clutter-Free Life: Going Paperless with Paperless-ngx - article / HN / Home / github / local

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Troubleshoot

Setup

Paperless converts your documents from regular PDFs to PDF/A which is a subset of the PDF standard. This subset is designed for long-term storage. - Over-engineering my document storage system with Paperless-ngx

if a PDF document already contains a layer of text (as it has been OCR’d) it will use that and not OCR the document. If your OCR tool isn’t the best it is better to set PAPERLESS_OCR_MODE=redo

Consume && tagging

  • Create an inbox tag. This means that all newly consumed documents are assigned the inbox tag and you can then go through all the new documents and update their names, metadata, tags etc.

  • Create a Saved View which shows on your homepage of new documents so you have a little list.

Storage Path

Backup

Managing your own documents also means having to manage the backups of documents.

Email sync - TBD

Installation

Podman install derived from ppngx: Podman + Paperless-ngx.

start.sh
podman pod stop paperless

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Written on October 9, 2023, Last update on October 22, 2023
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