Paperless-home
Digitize, organize, and search paper documents with AI-powered tools. Hosted in Europe with GDPR compliance for secure, eco-friendly document management.
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Paperless is a self-hosted document management system that helps you digitize, organize, and search paper documents effortlessly. Designed for both personal and professional use, it eliminates the chaos of physical paperwork while providing powerful features like full-text search, AI-assisted insights, and automatic categorization.
Key Features
- Full-text search: Instantly find any document by searching through its content.
- AI Assistant: Ask questions about documents or your entire archive and get instant summaries, key data, and due dates. Bring your own AI provider key.
- Auto-organizing: Set up rules to automatically categorize, tag, and file documents.
- Multi-format support: Handle PDFs, JPG, PNG, TIFF, DOCX, XLSX, CSV, and more.
- Mobile apps: Android and iOS apps for capturing and accessing documents on the go.
- Custom exports: Download documents with your preferred folder structure.
- Multi-user support: Share access with family or colleagues with custom permissions.
- Privacy-focused: Hosted in Europe with strict GDPR compliance and no vendor lock-in.
- Eco-friendly: Reduce paper waste by digitizing your documents.
- Open-source: Independently auditable software with frequent updates.
Tech / Self-Hosting
Paperless is built on Python and Django, with a PostgreSQL database backend. It can be self-hosted on any server or cloud platform, or used via the hosted service provided by Paperless-Home. The open-source core (paperless-ngx) is available on GitHub for community contributions and custom deployments.