Paperless-ngx
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Paperless-ngx is a document management system that transforms your physical documents into a searchable online archive so you can keep, well, less paper. Paperless-ngx forked from paperless-ng.
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- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
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- Online
- Self-Hosted
- Cloudron
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- Yann-Demel added Paperless-ngx as alternative to OpenFilz
PaperCat added Paperless-ngx as alternative to PaperCat- Croco Loki liked Paperless-ngx
Josh Pigford added Paperless-ngx as alternative to Granite
O-STI-O added Paperless-ngx as alternative to GClaude Indexer
Jacob McKelvy added Paperless-ngx as alternative to MusterVault
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When you are running multiple things on one or two servers, within your home, it's called a "Homelab" and you're "Homelabbing" at that point.
Running your own server and homelab within your home is great for privacy-conscious individuals such as myself, tech enthusiasts, small businesses, and those seeking more control of their digital life.
The following lists provided here are applications and software I've gotten comfortable with and enjoyed using over the past 3 and a half years since I started homelabbing, it's based on my experience and what fits my criteria. Some well known softwares won't be listed here, as my experience may of not been at best with them.
My criteria is that software is built in the open, respects user privacy and security, should not require a license to operate, and don't contain profanity and other minor things.
I'm also willing to test new software to selfhost, feel free to comment or message me to try out other alternatives.
There are other places to check out as well for those interesting selfhosting, such as Awesome Selfhosted, selfh.st, and other places you can find on the internet.
https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted
https://github.com/awesome-foss/awesome-sysadmin
https://github.com/veggiemonk/awesome-docker
If you ever need help with selfhosting, you can check out the following communities:
Homelab Community on Fluxer, I personally run
/r/selfhosted (Reddit)
/c/selfhosted (Lemmy / Fediverse)
There's also a wiki you can look into as well.
If you believe an alternative software should be added to this list, please contact me or direct message via my AlternativeTo account. I'm also available on Signal.
This lists gets updated every month at least, check back regularly.
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Comments and Reviews
Hosting Paperless on a NAS and connecting an ADF scanner makes processing paper documents an effortless job. Paperless can connect with mail accounts to process documents from certain folders. Automatically assigned metadata with some machine learning algorithms in the background makes tagging easy. Fast and intuitive filters let users find documents without searching long.
I use paperless for private documents for our family and manage 1500+ documents.
It works reliably.