Paperless-ngx

47,071 stars on GitHub Latest commit on October 24, 2026 Work & team

Document management for the paperless office: scan, recognise text, tag, find again.

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What Paperless-ngx does

Paperless-ngx takes in scanned documents, recognises the text and files them by correspondent, document type and tags. Full text is searchable; new documents are sorted automatically based on how you filed earlier ones.

Contracts, invoices, letters and receipts are found in seconds — no binders, no in-tray.

  • Text recognition in German and English
  • Automatic assignment of correspondent, type and tags
  • Full-text search across every document
  • Upload via the interface, email or a consume folder

Good to know before the first start: Text recognition is set to German and English. Upload documents through the interface or drop them into the “consume” folder.

Additional information

Category
Work & team
Replaces
Evernote, Google Drive folders, Dropbox scans
Recommended size
1 cores · 2 GB RAM · 50 GB Storage
Estimated per month
€4.80 At the recommended size, running around the clock. Stop the app and CPU and RAM stop costing.
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Common questions

What does Paperless-ngx cost on Podless?
At the recommended size (1 cores · 2 GB RAM · 50 GB Storage) about €4.80 a month, billed by the hour. Stop Paperless-ngx and you only pay for storage.
Do I need technical knowledge?
No. No server, no Docker, no terminal commands. You click start and Paperless-ngx runs. Updates are tested on our own instances first and then rolled out.
Where does my data live?
In your own Paperless-ngx instance on servers in Germany and France; bulk storage sits in Frankfurt. Add your own S3 bucket and we back up there daily, encrypted.
Can I leave again?
Paperless-ngx is open source and keeps running on your own server. You fetch the files over a time-limited SFTP access and reach the database with the credentials from the dashboard.

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