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  • Paperless-ng

    Discontinued A supercharged version of paperless: scan, index and archive all your physical documents

    Add https://github.com/jonaswinkler/paperless-ng to your list

  • PDF-Archiver

    A tool for tagging files and archiving tasks.

    Another idea is described in the PDF Archiver GitHub repository. https://github.com/PDF-Archiver/PDF-Archiver Look under the Convention section in the Readme.md. You don‘t really need the mac os app because it also just uses PDFs and Folders. The mac and iOS Apps just helping for faster sorting.

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  • 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

    As far as OCR is concerned I was pretty disappointed by the results that papermerge and paperless gave. Incomplete texts, oversensitive to images that are not 100% black and white like from a phone camera. They both use tesseract as far as I can tell. I found ocrmypdf (https://github.com/jbarlow83/OCRmyPDF) to yield better results due to its configurability, but I'd rather have an OCR assistant UI where it's easy to adjust settings on the fly for each document if default settings did not work well. Haven't found anything like that yet, though.

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