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Papra, the minimalistic document archiving platform

Papra is a minimalistic document management and archiving platform. It is designed to be simple to use and accessible to everyone. Papra is a platform for long-term document storage and management, like a digital archive for your documents.

Forget about that receipt of that gift you bought for your friend last year, or that warranty for your new phone. With Papra, you can easily store, forget, and retrieve your documents whenever you need them.

A live demo of the platform is available at demo.papra.app (no backend, client-side local storage only).

Github Project: https://github.com/papra-hq/papra

Feature List

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How does it differ from paperless?
- After a quick glance at the demo, I think the UI design is better than Paperless-ngx (at least on mobile). But, it only has tags. Not correspondents and document types. It also lacks the automatic matching feature, advanced search filters, custom fields, and customizable document views that Paperless has.
  
  Well it did say minimalistic.
  Tbh, paperless has a load of stuff I don't use anyway.
  
  So I'm staying with paperless-ngx, then
- I would be interested in a simplified version of paperless. Don’t get me wrong, it’s impressive. But I don’t really need all the powerful options it has, and wouldn’t mind something less complex to manage.
- I spun up version 0.3 to try it out, and it seems pretty and lean in comparison to paperless. However, it lacks a lot of functionality - I couldn't even change the name of the document.
  I get it, its a very new project and I imagine it will kick ass once it matures, however it is too bare bones for me right now.
Is this a fork of paperless?
https://docs.paperless-ngx.com/
- Doesn't seem like it. Paperless is however listed as an inspiration, lastly in the README.
How is this different from just having good folder structure for your pdfs? Not trying to be a contrarian here; just curious about the selling points.
- At least for paperless, one of the selling points is OCR plus text search. Do you can dump in all your receipts as photos, and then 3 years later, search "lawnmower" and find the receipt for it. (I dont know if this applies for this software, but its very nice in paperless)
  
  That does sound useful
  
  Damn I've gotta set up one of these, whether it be this one or paperless. The text recognition in photos would be huge.
  
  So basically gmail's motto: "search. dont sort"
- Lots of things are improved with a GUI. IMO this is one of them.
  Having a no-nonsense and predictable folder structure to store documents makes sense for those who are organized. For those who aren't, you can still use projects like this to sort data so they're retrievable by everyone, not just those who know and understand your folder structure.
  The intake emails are particularly interesting. Receive email with attachment and save it automatically. Excellent for repetitively collecting data without setting anything extra up. Just create an email alias for your intake, and distribute it. Wait for people to email shit to you.
  Great idea, IMO.
Welcome addition to the alternatives, however Paperless has set the bar pretty high.
- Certainly true, but I think paperless might be a tad overkill for some people.
can anyone comment on how the files are actually stored? is everything imported into a database or can it just work with any sort of folder structure you have already?
- I'm not a 100% certain as I've yet to try the application myself. However one of the configuration pages mentions you can choose between three different methods of choosing storage driver.
  DOCUMENTSTORAGEDRIVER The driver to use for document storage, values can be one of: filesystem, s3, in-memory.
  Path: documentsStorage.driver
  Environment variable: DOCUMENT_STORAGE_DRIVER
  Default value: filesystem
  Also it mentions the use of an ingestion folder.
  https://docs.papra.app/guides/setup-ingestion-folder/
  That's the most I can gather from quickly checking the docs at least.
Is there a docker-free version due?
The UI elements look like the ones used in Portainer, is it some frontend library?
- Seems like shadcn on first glance. By now it feels like the new bootstrap.
  
  Thanks!
I tried to run the container with the nearly default but was unable to start. Found an error in the log as ConnectionFailed("Unable to open connection to local database./app-data/db/db.sqlite: 14") at new Database.… at _createClient
I am binding to /DATA/AppData/papra:/app/app-data
When I run the container, papra folder was created with 0777 permission but no files in there.
Finally, I manually create a db folder under papra, and now the container able to run successfully.
Is there a way to install it on baremetal windows? I'm kinda tired looking for a document hostler that can work on baremetal windows atp. Everything either has docker method or doesn't support windows.
ILibrarian is the only one offering that.
- Dont think so no. Everything is docker and linux for a reason...
  
  Well okay, I'll be skipping this then.
this is the most genz thing i have ever seen
Welcome to Lemmy. We have a link field. Use it.
- AFAIK, Lemmy doesn't allow picture and link in the post "header". Personally prefer to show people a screenshot of an app as I think it looks better. I provided the link in the post.
  
  For future reference: there are fields "URL" (the link) and "Thumbnail URL" (the picture). If you paste the image, the Thumbnail URL field disappears, and picture URL appears in URL field.
  Cut it, and Thumbnail URL field appears again. Paste it into the Thumbnail URL field, and enter the link to whatever you want to be opened into the URL field again.
  Voila - you have a link AND a custom picture. It's weird, it shouldn't work this way, but it works.
  
  Please dont do that. Use a link instead. Put the image in the body.
  This is a link sharing platform.

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