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I've been using paperless-ng for a while. https://github.com/jonaswinkler/paperless-ng
I have a Samba share that I added as a destination on my network scanner. I then tag them, add a correspondent, and never think about them again. PDFs that are sent to me are just uploaded and tagged the same way.
The paper copies are then thrown into a box in hopes I never need the originals.
I back up the document storage regularly.
I've been using https://joplinapp.org, which is an open source Evernote alternative. It has Linux/Mac/Windows/Android/iOS clients, supports multiple sync methods, and end-to-end encryption. Truly a great app.
Another user of paperless-ng here. For a while, I used another open-source alternative Mayan EDMS - https://www.mayan-edms.com/.
As opposed to paperless, Mayan provides fine grained access control via ACLs and also allows 'directories' in addition to tags. Dropped it after a while though, since it was too enterprise-y and for in-depth configuration, the documentation was insufficient and I would have to buy the advertised book. Paperless-ng is sufficient for my personal use, though I still miss having directories as an additional level of hierarchical organization alongside tags.
Since I don't have a scanner, I just use the Microsoft Lens app to scan documents on my phone (Android). Paired with Syncthing (https://syncthing.net/), my documents are automatically synced to my desktop from where paperless-ng picks it up from the watched folder and automatically adds it. Tags and correspondents can be automatically added based on keywords in the text.
Another user of paperless-ng here. For a while, I used another open-source alternative Mayan EDMS - https://www.mayan-edms.com/.
As opposed to paperless, Mayan provides fine grained access control via ACLs and also allows 'directories' in addition to tags. Dropped it after a while though, since it was too enterprise-y and for in-depth configuration, the documentation was insufficient and I would have to buy the advertised book. Paperless-ng is sufficient for my personal use, though I still miss having directories as an additional level of hierarchical organization alongside tags.
Since I don't have a scanner, I just use the Microsoft Lens app to scan documents on my phone (Android). Paired with Syncthing (https://syncthing.net/), my documents are automatically synced to my desktop from where paperless-ng picks it up from the watched folder and automatically adds it. Tags and correspondents can be automatically added based on keywords in the text.
You can find a bunch of alternatives here - https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#pho....
If you want features such as facial recognition, you might try taking a closer look at PhotoPrism/LibrePhotos. I did try them about a year ago, but in the end just went with the desktop app digiKam (https://www.digikam.org/)
I have been trying teedy
https://github.com/sismics/docs
It stores everything into postgresql... filesystems are ok but it can get out of hand.
I am trying to deploy on microK8s with helm3
I haven't used it, but stumbled across Damselfly [1].
From the About on GitHub:
> Damselfly is a server-based Photograph Management app. The goal of Damselfly is to index an extremely large collection of images, and allow easy search and retrieval of those images, using metadata such as the IPTC keyword tags, as well as the folder and file names. Damselfly includes support for object/face detection, and face-recognition.
[1] https://github.com/Webreaper/Damselfly
If you want to start scanning your documents but can only scan one side at a time with your automatic document feeder (ADF), I wrote a small tool to merge the PDFs automatically: https://github.com/RomainGehrig/PDFCollate