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Productivity/Documents
Paperless-ngx
Scans, OCRs, and indexes documents so paper stops piling up.
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Activity score (0-100) — weighted from the 4 sub-scores below. Calculated automatically from the GitHub API, refreshed weekly.
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Community
100
Development
100
Maintenance
100
Risk
43,228 GitHub stars
Last commit: 0 days ago
Last release: 84 days ago
Open issues: 8
License: GPL-3.0
Hardware
RAM minimum2048 MB
RAM recommended4096 MB
CPU idle0.1 cores
CPU recommended2+ cores (OCR spikes to 100% on 1 core)
ARM supportFull
Access & auth
Needs reverse proxy✓ Yes
OIDC support✗ No
LDAP support✗ No
Multi-user✓ Yes
Mobile appAndroid
Operations
MaturityStable
Maintenance burdenLow
Setup difficultyMedium
Backup methodDB dump + media/originals folder
Leaving the cloud
Migration difficultyMedium
Replaces
Relationships
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Our notes
OCR is genuinely CPU-hungry during ingestion, not idle. On a Pi, switch to SQLite and 1 webserver worker per the official low-resource guide or it struggles. No official iOS app as of this writing — third-party options exist.