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A community-supported supercharged document management system: scan, index and archive all your documents

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Scan and organize your physical documents into a searchable online archive to reduce paper clutter.

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A community-supported supercharged document management system: scan, index and archive all your documents

paperless-ngx has 43.2k stars on GitHub. It has been forked 2.9k times. paperless-ngx is written mainly in Python. It has been in active development since 2022. paperless-ngx is available under the GPL-3.0 license. Its main topics are angular, archiving, django, dms.

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What is paperless-ngx?

A community-supported supercharged document management system: scan, index and archive all your documents

Is paperless-ngx open source?

paperless-ngx is an open-source project. It is released under the GPL-3.0 license.

Is paperless-ngx free?

Yes. paperless-ngx is free and open source — you can use, modify and self-host it. Its GPL-3.0 license is copyleft: if you distribute a modified version, it must remain under the same license.

What license does paperless-ngx use?

paperless-ngx is available under the GPL-3.0 license.

What language is paperless-ngx written in?

paperless-ngx is written mainly in Python.

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