Paperless-ngx is a document management system that transforms your physical documents into a searchable online archive so you can keep, well, _less paper_.
Paperless-ngx forked from [paperless-ng](https://github.com/jonaswinkler/paperless-ng) to continue the great work and distribute responsibility of supporting and advancing the project among a team of people. [Consider joining us!](#community-support) Discussion of this transition can be found in issues
[#1599](https://github.com/jonaswinkler/paperless-ng/issues/1599) and [#1632](https://github.com/jonaswinkler/paperless-ng/issues/1632).
A demo is available at [demo.paperless-ngx.com](https://demo.paperless-ngx.com) using login `demo` / `demo`. _Note: demo content is reset frequently and confidential information should not be uploaded._
- Paperless stores your documents plain on disk. Filenames and folders are managed by paperless and their format can be configured freely.
- Single page application front end.
- Includes a dashboard that shows basic statistics and has document upload.
- Filtering by tags, correspondents, types, and more.
- Customizable views can be saved and displayed on the dashboard.
- Full text search helps you find what you need.
- Auto completion suggests relevant words from your documents.
- Results are sorted by relevance to your search query.
- Highlighting shows you which parts of the document matched the query.
- Searching for similar documents ("More like this")
- Email processing: Paperless adds documents from your email accounts.
- Configure multiple accounts and filters for each account.
- When adding documents from mail, paperless can move these mail to a new folder, mark them as read, flag them as important or delete them.
- Machine learning powered document matching.
- Paperless-ngx learns from your documents and will be able to automatically assign tags, correspondents and types to documents once you've stored a few documents in paperless.
- Optimized for multi core systems: Paperless-ngx consumes multiple documents in parallel.
- The integrated sanity checker makes sure that your document archive is in good health.
The easiest way to deploy paperless is docker-compose. The files in the [`/docker/compose` directory](https://github.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx/tree/main/docker/compose) are configured to pull the image from GitHub Packages.
Alternatively, you can install the dependencies and setup apache and a database server yourself. The [documentation](https://docs.paperless-ngx.com/setup/#installation) has a step by step guide on how to do it.
Migrating from Paperless-ng is easy, just drop in the new docker image! See the [documentation on migrating](https://docs.paperless-ngx.com/setup/#migrating-to-paperless-ngx) for more details.
If you feel like contributing to the project, please do! Bug fixes, enhancements, visual fixes etc. are always welcome. If you want to implement something big: Please start a discussion about that! The [documentation](https://docs.paperless-ngx.com/development/) has some basic information on how to get started.
People interested in continuing the work on paperless-ngx are encouraged to reach out here on github and in the [Matrix Room](https://matrix.to/#/#paperless:adnidor.de). If you would like to contribute to the project on an ongoing basis there are multiple [teams](https://github.com/orgs/paperless-ngx/people) (frontend, ci/cd, etc) that could use your help so please reach out!
Paperless-ngx is available in many languages that are coordinated on Crowdin. If you want to help out by translating paperless-ngx into your language, please head over to https://crwd.in/paperless-ngx, and thank you! More details can be found in [CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#translating-paperless-ngx).
Feature requests can be submitted via [GitHub Discussions](https://github.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx/discussions/categories/feature-requests), you can search for existing ideas, add your own and vote for the ones you care about.
For bugs please [open an issue](https://github.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx/issues) or [start a discussion](https://github.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx/discussions) if you have questions.
Please see [the wiki](https://github.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx/wiki/Affiliated-Projects) for a user-maintained list of affiliated projects and software that is compatible with Paperless-ngx.
> Document scanners are typically used to scan sensitive documents like your social insurance number, tax records, invoices, etc. **Paperless-ngx should never be run on an untrusted host** because information is stored in clear text without encryption. No guarantees are made regarding security (but we do try!) and you use the app at your own risk.
> **The safest way to run Paperless-ngx is on a local server in your own home with backups in place**.
