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Paperless-ngx
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Paperless-ngx
Free
Community-supported open-source software · GPL-3.0
Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com
On the record
- AI features
- Optional AI features include document suggestions, document chat, and similar-document retrieval, and are disabled by default.docs.paperless-ngx.com · read 11 Oct 2026
- API
- Paperless-ngx provides a documented REST API with a browsable interface.docs.paperless-ngx.com · read 11 Oct 2026
- Authentication
- It has built-in Django authentication and supports external authentication through remote-user authentication or OpenID Connect and social authentication.docs.paperless-ngx.com · read 11 Oct 2026
- Document integrity
- Paperless-ngx keeps checksums and runs a scheduled sanity checker to check that documents remain unchanged.docs.paperless-ngx.com · read 11 Oct 2026
- Email integration
- Mail rules can filter and act on incoming email, and Gmail and Outlook OAuth support is documented in the changelog.docs.paperless-ngx.com · read 11 Oct 2026
- Encryption limit
- Document and thumbnail encryption is no longer supported as of version 3.docs.paperless-ngx.com · read 11 Oct 2026
- File formats
- It processes PDFs and common image formats, supports plain text, and can handle Office formats with optional Tika integration.docs.paperless-ngx.com · read 11 Oct 2026
- OCR
- It uses Tesseract OCR to make scanned documents searchable and supports more than 100 languages.docs.paperless-ngx.com · read 11 Oct 2026
- Organization
- Users can organize documents with tags, correspondents, document types, custom fields, and workflows.docs.paperless-ngx.com · read 11 Oct 2026
- Platform
- The setup guide states that Paperless runs on Linux and that Windows is not supported.docs.paperless-ngx.com · read 11 Oct 2026
- Privacy
- Documents are stored locally on the user's server; using configured AI providers can send document content to those providers.docs.paperless-ngx.com · read 11 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Paperless-ngx turns physical documents into a searchable online archive.docs.paperless-ngx.com · read 11 Oct 2026
- Support
- Community support is available through GitHub Discussions and Matrix.docs.paperless-ngx.com · read 11 Oct 2026
