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View guide →Paperless-ngx is an open-source self-hosted project by paperless-ngx (paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx on GitHub). It has 47,106 GitHub stars and 3,280 forks, is released under the GPL-3.0 license, and was last updated on GitHub on 26 October 2026.
Paperless-ngx — the community document management system: scan, index and archive every paper document, GPL-3.0
The README jump-right-in route: the install script configures a docker compose environment for you.
Bring the compose stack up, then open Paperless-ngx in your browser and start importing documents.
Feed in scans and PDFs, let automatic matching suggest tags and correspondents, and search the whole archive.
Paper documents become a searchable digital archive instead of boxes of filing.
Matching suggestions for correspondents, types and tags improve as your archive grows.
Search, browse and manage the whole archive from the browser, on your own server.
The community staple for this job, with full documentation and an easy migration path from Paperless-ng.
The README route: one command configures docker compose.
bash -c "$(curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx/main/install-paperless-ngx.sh)"The compose files themselves, for a manual setup from the GitHub Container Registry image.
https://github.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx/tree/main/docker/composeStep-by-step guides for alternative installation methods and migration.
https://docs.paperless-ngx.com/setup/The paperless-ngx community, as the maintained successor to Paperless-ng.
Yes — GPL-3.0 licensed.
Partly: its automatic classification learns from your documents, but its core job is document management — it sits in Self-Hosted here as a home-lab staple, the same way the other staples do.
Easiest is docker compose via the project install script; the documentation covers manual and alternative setups.
Run the install script, open the web UI, and start importing scans and PDFs.
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