scanservjs
paperless-ngx
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scanservjs
- Google Photos alternative with OCR
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Fujitsu iX1600 or Competitor for Paperless-ngx
My solution to use my workforce with paperless is scanservjs and scantopl and I'm pretty happy with it
- paperless and brother AiO-printer: No duplex in the scan profile?
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What are your top self hosted services that you are very satisfied with ?
I use scanservjs and scantopl on docker.
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ScanServerJs setup guide
Recently I stumbled upon ScanServerJs, an awesome software that allows you to setup your own scan server.
- Print/scan server replacing crappy HP integration
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Vuescan – Software support for 6500 abandoned scanners
Nothing to do with VueScan, but I just went through a journey trying to find a good solution for an old HP laserjet/scanner combo that I picked up used for $40. Although it's not wifi enabled, and has no Mac support (that I need for a couple of laptops in my household), I got it running perfectly on a Raspberry Pi, despite some difficulties with the HP driver "ecosystem". (Why do they make it so complicated..)
Once I got it working, I set up `saned` and was able to scan from my Ubuntu laptop over wifi just fine using `gscan2pdf`, which has a horrible user interface but at least gets the job done. Honestly it was a bit surprising to me to discover how terrible the scanning landscape still is in open source software, but I guess it's just not one of those things that is needed that often so some basic projects that were thrown together a decade ago still kind of work and that's that. I can accept that.
However, I absolutely could not manage to get any kind of "bridge" working for the Mac laptop, which apparently uses a different scanner API called TWAIN, and no amount of messing around with TWAIN/sane bridges worked out. Not to mention that one of the two Macs was a "work" laptop for which it was not allowed to install drivers or system software.
The whole time I was thinking, man, all I want is some web interface where I can log into the RPi and drive the scanner, and download the result, why is that so difficult. Lo and behold I came across this amazing project that solved the whole problem for me: https://github.com/sbs20/scanservjs. I'm not affiliated with it, but I was just so impressed at how well it worked that I feel the need to mention it, and give kudos to the author.
It was even easy to get running, just a single docker command on the RPi and it was up and running. The laptops can connect easily, of course, because it's just a local web server, and you can do multipage scans to PDF, which is really all I wanted. Fantastic bit of OSS, highly recommended if anyone finds themselves in a similar situation. Forget remote protocols and installing drivers, etc., just run this on the Pi and you're in business.
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Office Printer and Scanner needed.
We currently have an HP M1136 MFP connected to CUPS on the local network. It always turns itself off and is never available. People have mostly resorted to walking over with their laptop and connecting via USB. Also there are no good network interfaces to the scanner. We use https://github.com/sbs20/scanservjs to control the scanner but it's too buggy and slow.
- Document scanner server for usb printer?
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Document management, OCR processes, and my love for ScanServer-js.
I've had an old all-in-one HP USB printer/scanner hooked up to a Raspberry Pi for a few years running CUPS. Network printing has been great via this method. But the scanner portion has sat unused ever since. Until, now.... WHY DID NOBODY TELL ME ABOUT SCANSERVER-JS?! My word this is incredible! It does for scanning what CUPS does for printing, and with a beautiful Web UI.
paperless-ngx
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I accidentally built a meme search engine
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
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🔍Underrated Open Source Projects You Should Know About 🧠
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.
- Paperless-Ngx
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Home Lab Guide
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/
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Ask HN: What Underrated Open Source Project Deserves More Recognition?
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
- Daily Price Tracking for Trader Joes
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Taking (Back?) My Internet Privacy and Presence
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 )
- Paperless-NGX: transform your physical documents into a searchable archive
- Paperless-ngx: open-source document management system
What are some alternatives?
Paperless-ng - A supercharged version of paperless: scan, index and archive all your physical documents
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.
OCRmyPDF - OCRmyPDF adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched
darktable - darktable is an open source photography workflow application and raw developer
Mayan EDMS - Free Open Source Document Management System (mirror, no pull request or issues)
scantopl - Automatically upload file to paperless when filename match a prefix
Nextcloud - ☁️ Nextcloud server, a safe home for all your data
Portainer - Making Docker and Kubernetes management easy.
Nginx Proxy Manager - Docker container for managing Nginx proxy hosts with a simple, powerful interface