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Households and small teams drowning in receipts, contracts, and PDFs.

Why it deserves attention

Paperless-ngx ingests scans and PDFs, runs OCR, extracts correspondents, dates, and tags, and then makes the whole archive full-text searchable from a web UI. It runs in Docker with PostgreSQL and Redis, supports email and scanner intake, and has a REST API and mobile-friendly interface. It is GPL-3.0 with 47,000 GitHub stars and a large contributor base. Setup is more involved than a cloud scanner app, and you are responsible for backups and storage.

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