paperless-ngx VS formkiq-core

I steered a friend towards Paperless (and away from an LLM solution) as a way of searching/accessing GBs of architectural PDFs recently - so far, it’s apparently working well for them.

https://github.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx

Paperless-ngx is a document management system that transforms your physical documents into a searchable online archive so you can find your physical documents easier. With features such as tags, full text search, multi-user permissions system, this is a dream for those who like to keep an organized folder of files and documents.

Since last year I’ve been configuring and maintaining my homelab setup and it is just amazing.

I’ve learned so much about containers, virtual machines and networking. Some of the self hosted applications like paperless-ngx [1] and immich [2] are much superior in terms of features than the proprietary cloud solutions.

With the addition of VPN services like tailscale [3] now I can access my homelab from anywhere in the world.

The only thing missing is to setup a low powered machine like NUC or any mini PC so I can offload the services I need 24/7 and save electricity costs.

If you can maintain it and have enough energy on weekends to perform routine maintenance and upgrades. I would 100% recommend setting up your own homelab.

[1] https://docs.paperless-ngx.com/

This has been posted a few times already, but I cannot tell you how life changing Paperless NGX is for organizing PDFs. As someone who wrangles all of the insurance and bills for my house, this open source software is so damn good.

https://docs.paperless-ngx.com/

I maintain Bash script to quickly set it up locally on Linux with Podman. Give it a spin if you want to kick the tires.

https://github.com/jdoss/ppngx

Personally, I use https://github.com/joeyates/imap-backup to archive all my emails and then only keep them on the remote server for as long as I need to (basically until I read them and respond or download an attachment into https://docs.paperless-ngx.com )

We may want to get in touch with each other. We have an Open Core document management platform that runs in AWS; I'm not sure about your roadmap, but there may be something there that's of use: https://github.com/formkiq/formkiq-core

We are in the weird position of building something (a document management platform) that can be for SaaS bootstrappers (especially our free version), but our main marketing and sales efforts are for larger orgs, whether for SaaS or internal use.

We have a free offering, FormKiQ Core (https://github.com/formkiq/formkiq-core) that will also include this AI classification, so it's possible to use that as a foundation for creating a custom ECM system.

I think that makes sense to me (biased as I am). I wonder if Milvus (mentioned in another comment) can handle some of this, or if a dedicated EDMS is required. We have created an Open Core EDMS that could provide the document management functionality running using AWS: https://github.com/formkiq/formkiq-core

Our product is FormKiQ, and while our free version, FormKiQ Core, handles all of the standard functionality, we want to get our enterprise modules out there for startups that could use them.

If you are okay with hosting in your own cloud, you can try FormKiQ Core: https://github.com/formkiq/formkiq-core

I'm definitely curious as to what software is available in this space. Our company, FormKiQ, is wading into this AI processing of emails into matters right now, and I don't know that I've personally seen anything with the flexibility you need on the market. We may be too robust for what you need, but I'm always looking out to see if there is a simpler solution we can provide if enough people have the same problem.

If hosted in-house can be swapped out by an AWS account your organization owns and controls, you can try FormKiQ Core: https://github.com/formkiq/formkiq-core. It covers all of the expected standard functionality of a document management system, with an emphasis on flexibility and integration.

But if you decide to create such a system, you may want to evaluate if our Open Core document management platform might save you time on your MVP: https://github.com/formkiq/formkiq-core