A digital filing cabinet - scanning, OCR and automatic sorting
Where do I put my files?
You reach these folders in the File manager. You may need to sign in to the File manager first.
Documents to read in ↗
47.9 GB free
Copy the files to be processed in here. The app reads them and then deletes them from here — this folder is temporary and is not backed up.
What is it for?
- Turn paper documents into files and keep them in order
- Automatic OCR text recognition on scanned documents
- Smart automatic sorting and tagging
- Full text search across every document
- Documents that arrive by e-mail are processed automatically
First steps
- Open paperless.DOMAIN in your browser
- Sign in: user "admin". The password is on the Settings page, under Automatically generated values
- Upload a document in the app, OR drop it into the import/paperless folder in the File manager (FileBrowser) - it is read in and processed with OCR from there. The File manager sign-in is on the File manager app page
- You can upload many documents at once: they are processed one by one, and a larger batch takes a few minutes
- Create tags and correspondents so new documents sort themselves
Before you start
- An external hard drive is recommended to keep the documents on
- At least 1 GB of free RAM (for the OCR work)