Paperless Ngx Document Ocr Archive Management System

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name: "Paperless-ngx Document OCR and Archive Management System"
slug: "paperless-ngx-document-ocr-archive-management-system"
description: "Paperless-ngx is an open source document management system that turns scanned or uploaded paperwork into a searchable archive. It combines OCR-driven ingestion, indexing, tagging, storage, and retrieval for teams that need structured access to documents."
github_stars: 38063
verification: "security_reviewed"
source: "https://github.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx"
author: "paperless-ngx"
category: "Data Extraction & Transformation"
framework: "Multi-Framework"
tool_ecosystem:
  github_repo: "paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx"
  github_stars: 38063
---

# Paperless-ngx Document OCR and Archive Management System

Paperless-ngx is an open source document management system that turns scanned or uploaded paperwork into a searchable archive. It combines OCR-driven ingestion, indexing, tagging, storage, and retrieval for teams that need structured access to documents.

## Installation

Requirements and caveats from upstream:
- The easiest way to deploy paperless is docker compose. The files in the [/docker/compose directory](https://github.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx/tree/main/docker/compose) are configured to pull the image from the Gi...
- If you'd like to jump right in, you can configure a docker compose environment with our install script:
- Migrating from Paperless-ng is easy, just drop in the new docker image! See the [documentation on migrating](https://docs.paperless-ngx.com/setup/#migrating-to-paperless-ngx) for more details.

Basic usage or getting-started notes:
- [Getting started](#getting-started)
- bash
- bash -c "$(curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx/main/install-paperless-ngx.sh)"

- Source: https://github.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx
- Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx/HEAD/README.md

## Documentation

- http://docs.paperless-ngx.com/

## Source

- [Agent Skill Exchange](https://agentskillexchange.com/skills/paperless-ngx-document-ocr-archive-management-system/)