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Paperless-ngx

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Spec score 7.6 #34 of 63 in Document Management Software

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Purpose
Paperless-ngx turns physical documents into a searchable online archive.Read 11 Oct 2026 · docs.paperless-ngx.com
API
Paperless-ngx provides a documented REST API with a browsable interface.Read 11 Oct 2026 · docs.paperless-ngx.com
Privacy
Documents are stored locally on the user's server; using configured AI providers can send document content to those providers.Read 11 Oct 2026 · docs.paperless-ngx.com
Support
Community support is available through GitHub Discussions and Matrix.Read 11 Oct 2026 · docs.paperless-ngx.com
AI features
Optional AI features include document suggestions, document chat, and similar-document retrieval, and are disabled by default.Read 11 Oct 2026 · docs.paperless-ngx.com
Authentication
It has built-in Django authentication and supports external authentication through remote-user authentication or OpenID Connect and social authentication.Read 11 Oct 2026 · docs.paperless-ngx.com
Document integrity
Paperless-ngx keeps checksums and runs a scheduled sanity checker to check that documents remain unchanged.Read 11 Oct 2026 · docs.paperless-ngx.com
Email integration
Mail rules can filter and act on incoming email, and Gmail and Outlook OAuth support is documented in the changelog.Read 11 Oct 2026 · docs.paperless-ngx.com
Encryption limit
Document and thumbnail encryption is no longer supported as of version 3.Read 11 Oct 2026 · docs.paperless-ngx.com
File formats
It processes PDFs and common image formats, supports plain text, and can handle Office formats with optional Tika integration.Read 11 Oct 2026 · docs.paperless-ngx.com
OCR
It uses Tesseract OCR to make scanned documents searchable and supports more than 100 languages.Read 11 Oct 2026 · docs.paperless-ngx.com
Organization
Users can organize documents with tags, correspondents, document types, custom fields, and workflows.Read 11 Oct 2026 · docs.paperless-ngx.com
Platform
The setup guide states that Paperless runs on Linux and that Windows is not supported.Read 11 Oct 2026 · docs.paperless-ngx.com

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Paperless-ngx Free Community-supported open-source software · GPL-3.0 Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

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