I have an unRAID server with a bunch of dockers on, and yet I’m still scanning and filing my documents in an SMB share like a goon!

What options are out there for me? I’m after something that has the following features:

- Scan to email functionality for ingest as well as manual ingest from another digital file share

- OCR

- Tagging

I’m honestly not sure what else

Suggestions?

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  • sumistev@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’m drinking the paperless-ngx koolaid very hard. Have digitized over 1k documents into it so far. Fast and easy to use.

    • stphn17@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      The only issue I see with paperless-ngx is that you cannot use an existing folder structure, or has that changed in the meantime?

      I would like to access the documents via paperless-ngx but would also like to preserve and continue to use my existing folder structure, especially to make retrieval of documents easier for someone else than me in case of emergency or if I cannot use paperless-ngx for whatever reason.

      I have made the experience that following along a clearly defined logical folder structure is easier for someone who hasn’t spend ours creating the structure themselves or doesn’t know about paperless-ngx.

      • sumistev@alien.topBEnglish
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        1 year ago

        There are “storage partitions” (if I’m remembering the wording correctly) that let you put documents into physical storage locations, but there’s not a formal folder structure. For me I constantly found myself needing documents in two places (eg: property tax bill in both the folder for my house as well as my annual income tax filing, since I want all the documents for that together too). Formal folder structure was too limiting for me. Having things tagged just works better for me and eliminated my problem of having to commit to a folder structure that I wouldn’t like next year.

    • t3abagger@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      With the last upgrade I can’t scan in any docs and I get errors:

      documents.parsers.ParseError: SubprocessOutputError: Ghostscript rasterizing failed. See logs for more information.

      You aren’t having that? I did some searching and none of the workarounds aren’t working… around the issue.

      • sumistev@alien.topBEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I am on version 1.17.4, not having any issues scanning in documents still. Loaded a few more in today.

      • fedroxx@alien.topBEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I was having that error and it was caused by a compose configuration. I had /tmp incorrectly mapped. Removed the map entirely. Started working again.