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What document management solution are you using? (alien.top)
submitted 10 months ago by tab87vn@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum
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So I'm setting up a home server for personal purposes, among which, storing personal documents/files.. accumulated over the years is now my next target. I've already had:

- Nextcloud to upload/sync files from my mobile devices

- Calibre to manage ebooks, magazines

- Jellyfin to manage multimedia files, including photos

I'm looking for a solution to upload/manage documents. Could be my Ids, could be my rental contract, or recovery passphrases for my accounts, etc.

There are a lot that can be found from here:

https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#document-management---integrated-library-systems-ils

But I'd love to get real experience and advice. Something that can run with docker and maybe, probably integrate nicely with the rest of the above stuff.

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[–] lilolalu@alien.top 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Nextcloud works great for document management, if you additionally install tesseract OCR and Elasticsearch. Then you can use any smartphone document-scanner (I personally use "swift scan") to add new documents via WebDAV Upload, but I think most of them support WebDAV nowadays. The Nextcloud app even has a document scanner feature built in, but it's not very good.

I have been reading about the features of paperless-ng and I don't see what that software additionally brings to the table that a properly setup nextcloud cannot do. Only that I have Nextcloud anyways and it can do much more than document management and I love to have all aspects of my "personal cloud" in one software tool.

[–] ceciltech@alien.top 2 points 10 months ago

Tesseract OCR

I am very unclear on what happens with the OCR output and how that is associated with the file and how it os searched?