# jonaswinkler/paperless-ng

A supercharged version of paperless: scan, index and archive all your physical documents

Repository: https://github.com/jonaswinkler/paperless-ng
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/paperless-ng
Homepage: https://paperless-ng.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Language: Python
License: GPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: dms, document-management-system, full-text-search, machine-learning, django, angular, ocr, archiving, search
Archived: true
Last push: 2023-02-14T14:55:33+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2989, "days_push": 1296, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 5414, forks 347 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:17.802022+00:00)

## What it is
Paperless-ng is a self-hosted document management system that scans, OCRs, indexes, and archives physical documents with full-text search and automatic metadata tagging. It is a fork of the original Paperless project and has been superseded by the community-maintained paperless-ngx continuation.

## Use cases
- scan and archive paper documents digitally
- self-hosted document management system
- full-text search across scanned PDFs
- automatically tag and organize scanned documents
- replace paper filing cabinets with a digital archive
- OCR scanned documents and make them searchable

## When to choose
- you want a mature, self-hosted DMS with OCR and full-text search
- you prefer the original ng interface and feature set
- you need a drop-in setup matching existing paperless-ng documentation

## When to avoid
- starting a new deployment - use paperless-ngx, the actively maintained continuation
- you need GnuPG-encrypted document storage
- you have very limited RAM (needs ~300MB+ for the web server)

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: maintenance
- function: ocr, search-engine, machine-learning, nlp, pdf
- domain: self-hosted, developer-tools, files, pdf
- platform: self-hosted, python
- tags: document-management-system, django, angular, archiving, full-text-search, paperless-ngx-successor, search, docker, web-server, linux

## Member repositories
- jonaswinkler/paperless-ng (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:17.802022+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:57:45.470092+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/jonaswinkler/paperless-ng (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:17.802022+00:00, sha 707e73e0c92e)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.