Paperless-ng VS Paperless

Compare Paperless-ng vs Paperless and see what are their differences.

Paperless-ng

A supercharged version of paperless: scan, index and archive all your physical documents (by jonaswinkler)

Paperless

Scan, index, and archive all of your paper documents (by the-paperless-project)
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Paperless-ng Paperless
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0.0 5.3
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Python Python
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Paperless-ng

Posts with mentions or reviews of Paperless-ng. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-20.

Paperless

Posts with mentions or reviews of Paperless. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-20.
  • 🔍Underrated Open Source Projects You Should Know About 🧠
    9 projects | dev.to | 20 Mar 2024
    Paperless-ngx is the successor to the original Paperless & Paperless-ng projects, both of which are now in public archive. The original projects are not dead, but rather, continued through the open source community!
  • Paperless-Ngx v2.0.0
    17 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Nov 2023
    I don't know if it has a specific meaning. There have been multiple forks:

    paperless (https://github.com/the-paperless-project/paperless)

    17 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Nov 2023
    There's this:

    https://github.com/the-paperless-project/paperless/issues/20

    I don't know if it made it's way into this fork.

  • Québec lifehack: la BanQ!
    3 projects | /r/Quebec | 20 Oct 2022
  • My take on document archiving: Virtualpaper
    7 projects | /r/selfhosted | 19 Jul 2022
    Agreed. It's difficult to beat paperless* for single-user systems. It does have some rudimentary user management from Django, but it's an admin party and there's no way to give users separate repositories. They've been looking into it for years, going back as far as the original paperless project. I imagine such a feature is difficult to add on as an afterthought because it touches everything, so it should be built in from the very beginning. And it seems they're looking for a perfect implementation, which may or may not exist. Thus, years later, paperless* remains effectively a single-user app.
  • Paperless-NGX
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Mar 2022
    If I understand this correctly, the original Paperless was archived (Archival notice)[https://github.com/the-paperless-project/paperless/commit/9b...], so Paperless-NG was created.

    Now that Paperless-NG seems to be going unmaintained (last commit on 15th Sep 2021), Paperless-NGX has been created with a focus on an org, so that the continuity of the project can be maintained with a simple path for the original creators to join back if they want to.

    I don't think the community could have handled this better!

  • Announcing first release of Paperless-ngx, the community-supported successor to Paperless-ng
    13 projects | /r/selfhosted | 10 Mar 2022
    As many of you know "Paperless-ng" was a very popular fork of the document management system "Paperless". The initial author of -ng, Jonas Winkler, created an amazing project that was eventually designated as the 'official' successor. He maintained a furious development pace for some time but as of this post hasn't been heard from in months. A group of folks dedicated to the software (myself included) decided to try and revive the project and hopefully set it up for a long future. Yes, a similar thing happened with the original Paperless, we are hoping to avoid some of the same mistakes. See jonaswinkler/paperless-ng#1599, jonaswinkler/paperless-ng#1632 and historically the-paperless-project/paperless#711 if you are curious for more about all of this.
  • Just want to share my homelab
    2 projects | /r/homelab | 27 Nov 2021
  • Can someone recommend me a decent cheap document scanner?
    2 projects | /r/linuxhardware | 29 Sep 2021
    I have a Brother ADS-1700W, works fine, a little fiddly to set up the profiles for one touch scanning but once it's done it's fine. I set up a workflow with https://github.com/the-paperless-project/paperless that lets me scan straight into OCR. https://github.com/jonaswinkler/paperless-ng is the fork that I'm going to upgrade to in my CFT.
  • Wie digitalisiert ihr euren Papierkram?
    2 projects | /r/Finanzen | 30 Jul 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Paperless-ng and Paperless you can also consider the following projects:

Papermerge - Open Source Document Management System for Digital Archives (Scanned Documents)

Docspell - Assist in organizing your piles of documents, resulting from scanners, e-mails and other sources with miminal effort.

paperless-ngx - A community-supported supercharged version of paperless: scan, index and archive all your physical documents

Mayan EDMS - Free Open Source Document Management System (mirror, no pull request or issues)

Teedy - Lightweight document management system packed with all the features you can expect from big expensive solutions

mayan-edms

Nginx Proxy Manager - Docker container for managing Nginx proxy hosts with a simple, powerful interface

icloud-drive-docker - Dockerized iCloud Client - make a local copy of your iCloud documents and photos, and keep it automatically up-to-date.

OCRmyPDF - OCRmyPDF adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched

CryptPad - Collaborative office suite, end-to-end encrypted and open-source.