Paperless-ngx

Scan, index, and archive all of your paper documents with an improved interface (fork of Paperless).

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Last committoday19 Oct 2026

LicenceGPL-3.0SPDX, from the repository

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Scan, index, and archive all of your paper documents with an improved interface (fork of Paperless).

Self-hosting requirements

Runs with	Python, Docker
Docker	Yes awesome-selfhosted lists Docker as a way to deploy it.

Sources: github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted-data/blob/master/software/paperless-ngx.yml, checked 19 Oct 2026. “Runs with” is from this listing. Blank means we haven't found it in official docs yet, not that it's unsupported.

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Document Management

Local hosted web application that allows you to perform various operations on PDF files, such as merging, splitting, file conversions and OCR.