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> 2x of docs.paperless-ngx.com/ (one for me and one for my partner) - I scan and destroy most of the letters I get. Ah, interesting. I have been considering

by bmitc 4y ago

> 2x of docs.paperless-ngx.com/ (one for me and one for my partner) - I scan and destroy most of the letters I get. Ah, interesting. I have been considering finding a solution like that. How do you like it? Are there other alternatives you considered?

derkades 4y ago
I used paperless for a while but ended up just saving pdfs to directories instead. I can find what I need without fancy OCR features by organizing and naming files sensibly. And I am fairly certain this will still work in 40 years, while paperless, or even Linux, might no longer exist.
- bmitc 4y ago
  That was sort of the approach I had been planning on going for (manual scanning and putting it in directories that get cloud backed up). I have a pretty good scanner app on my phone, and so just scanning after opening the mail for some important document or invoice, uploading to the document storage, and then shredding seemed to be pretty low fanfare.
  - fspoettel 4y ago
    Which scanner app are you using?
- fdw 4y ago
  In the end, paperless also stores the original pdfs in a directory. You get some more goodies from it, like automatic OCR and a web interface, but your baselines is also included.
- lannisterstark 4y ago
  Why not do both? Use rsync to do a one way sync by keeping a filter list to the paperless consume directory so whenever you drop any new documents to your original folder structures, it copies THAT to the consume and paperless consumes it?
mrccc 4y ago
I can recommend paperless. I am running it locally in a Docker container and sync database/files with iCloud (so they are backed up). I've been thinking about putting them on the actual web to access them anywhere, but so far having paperless "just" on my computer was enough.
cientifico 4y ago
There are alternatives. I chose paperless because was the most mature opensource solution. Be aware that there is paperless, paperless-ng and paperless-ngx. When I did the setup last year paperless-ngx look like the most maintained.
- Semaphor 4y ago
  > When I did the setup last year paperless-ngx look like the most maintained. Just FYI, none of those were hostile forks, but in both the community taking over after the former maintainers abandoned the project. NGX is indeed the active version.
  - cientifico 4y ago
    That's clearer. Thanks

by bmitc 4y ago

derkades 4y ago

I used paperless for a while but ended up just saving pdfs to directories instead. I can find what I need without fancy OCR features by organizing and naming files sensibly. And I am fairly certain this will still work in 40 years, while paperless, or even Linux, might no longer exist.

bmitc 4y ago
That was sort of the approach I had been planning on going for (manual scanning and putting it in directories that get cloud backed up). I have a pretty good scanner app on my phone, and so just scanning after opening the mail for some important document or invoice, uploading to the document storage, and then shredding seemed to be pretty low fanfare.
- fspoettel 4y ago
  Which scanner app are you using?
fdw 4y ago
In the end, paperless also stores the original pdfs in a directory. You get some more goodies from it, like automatic OCR and a web interface, but your baselines is also included.
lannisterstark 4y ago
Why not do both? Use rsync to do a one way sync by keeping a filter list to the paperless consume directory so whenever you drop any new documents to your original folder structures, it copies THAT to the consume and paperless consumes it?

mrccc 4y ago

I can recommend paperless. I am running it locally in a Docker container and sync database/files with iCloud (so they are backed up). I've been thinking about putting them on the actual web to access them anywhere, but so far having paperless "just" on my computer was enough.

cientifico 4y ago

There are alternatives. I chose paperless because was the most mature opensource solution. Be aware that there is paperless, paperless-ng and paperless-ngx. When I did the setup last year paperless-ngx look like the most maintained.

Semaphor 4y ago
> When I did the setup last year paperless-ngx look like the most maintained. Just FYI, none of those were hostile forks, but in both the community taking over after the former maintainers abandoned the project. NGX is indeed the active version.
- cientifico 4y ago
  That's clearer. Thanks