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Wanted: Document Management System with OCR (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by cpbradshaw@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum

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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.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] stphn17@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Absolutely agree and that's where paperless-ngx will shine. But for my documents I prefer a tool agnostic (and therefore future proof) way of storing. In case of multiple places, where a document could go, I always think "what's the most likely way I will be looking for this document in the future?".