Introduction

Paperless-ngx is a self-hosted document management system (DMS) that helps individuals and organizations efficiently scan, organize, and retrieve documents. It is built to streamline the transition to a paperless office, where documents can be automatically processed, OCR-scanned, categorized, and searched from a modern web interface.

It supports features like:

• ✅ Full-text search (OCR) using Tesseract

• ✅ Automatic file importing and tagging

• ✅ REST API access

• ✅ Multi-user support with permissions

• ✅ Easy Docker deployment