Document archive
Paperless-ngx
Scan, index and find every document.
open source self-hostable Paperless-ngx project · ?OCR, tags and full-text search for letters, invoices and contracts; the standard self-hosted archive.
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How you can run it
| Way | Where the data lives | Price basis | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| Host it myself | your own server or hardware | free | green — You run it yourself: no data leaves your own infrastructure. |
Facts
| Company / project | Paperless-ngx project (jurisdiction unknown) |
|---|---|
| Licence | GPL-3.0 |
| Self-hosting footprint | 1024 MB RAM · 1 vCPU · 10 GB — small deployment: a household or a team of up to ~20 people |
| Commonly replaces | Evernote, Google Drive |
| Upstream (awesome-selfhosted-data) | 44,822 stars · updated 2026-09-03 · Python, Docker |
| Provenance | curated, verified 2026-09-04 |
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