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Paperless-ngx
Free & open source
A document management system that turns paper documents into a searchable online archive.
Free and open source. You run it yourself, so you're responsible for setup, updates, backups and security. Want it set up safely? OBZDN can install and maintain it for you.
- Best for
- Trades and small teams that want receipts, invoices and other paperwork scanned into one searchable archive.
- Replaces
- Not stated on their site
- Setup
- Needs a server
- Cost
- Free to self-host
- License
- GPL-3.0. Open source
- Standout
- Reads the text in scanned documents (OCR) so you can search them, and can import documents from your email accounts.
- Watch out for
- You install it on your own server or computer, and it stores information in clear text without encryption, so it should only run on a machine you trust.
- Project health
- 46,944 GitHub stars, 463 contributors. Last update 2026-10-20; latest release v3.3.3 on 2026-10-19.
- Security check
- Checked 2026-10-20: no open security advisories without a fix (17 published advisories, all patched).
Checked against the official repo and site on 2026-10-20; health and security are rechecked weekly, and a listing that fails is hidden. Something changed? Tell us.