Bug#986227: RFP: paperless-ng -- scan, index and archive all your physical documents

[Phil Morrell]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name : paperless-ng
Version : 1.3.2
Upstream Author : Jonas Winkler
* URL : https://paperless-ng.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
* License : GPL-3.0-or-later
Programming Lang: Python backend, Javascript frontend
Description : scan, index and archive all your physical documents

Paperless does not control your scanner, it only helps you deal with
what your scanner produces. Paperless doesn't care how the documents get
into its local consumption directory. You can setup a document scanner
to "scan to FTP", install an Android Share application, configure email
attachment processing via IMAP or just submit a web form.

Wait for paperless to process your files. OCR is expensive, and
depending on the power of your machine, this might take a bit of time.
Use the web frontend to sift through the database and find what you
want. Download the PDF you need/want via the web interface and do
whatever you like with it.

Filtering by tags, correspondents, types, and more. Full text search
helps you find what you need. Paperless learns from your documents and
will be able to automatically assign tags, correspondents and types to
documents once you've stored a few documents in paperless.

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paperwork is a desktop application just recently added to the archive
that could be used, but a paperless-ng server feels like a better way to
handle the multiple devices usecase and could be a FreedomBox module.

[Phil Morrell]

Control: retitle -1 ITP: paperless-ng -- scan, index and archive all your physical documents
Control: owner -1 Mechtilde Stehmann <mech...@debian.org>
thanks

On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 09:25:14PM +0100, Mechtilde Stehmann wrote:
> I intend to package paperless-ng.
>
> Many of its dependencies are packaged in Debian but in an older version. You
> can see the list at
> https://salsa.debian.org/mechtilde/paperless-ng/-/wikis/home

Thanks for working on this, I currently use it on my home system and
would be interested in testing a packaged version.

[Mechtilde Stehmann]

Package: wnpp
Followup-For: Bug #986227
X-Debbugs-Cc: mech...@debian.org

I stop here to try to package it.

At installation I detect, it isn't only written in python but contains
javascript.

It uses npm to install things during compile time. This isn't allowed during
packaging.
If also other persons with this knowledge step in I will be able to work on it
again.

Kind regards

[Mechtilde Stehmann]

Control:retitle -1 RFP: paperless-ng -- scan, index and archive all your
physical documents

Control: owner -1 Control: owner -1

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[Michael Ablassmeier]

Control:retitle -1 RFP: paperless-ngx -- scan, index and archive all your physical documents

hi,

meanwhile the paperless-ng project has moved to paperless-ngx, a group based
effort to maintain the project:

https://github.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx


bye,
- michael

[Michael Ablassmeier]

hi,

the most recent documentation on how to install paperless-ngx on bare metal
states you dont have to compile the frontend by yourself anymore:

https://docs.paperless-ngx.com/setup/#bare_metal
[..]
Optional: If you cloned the git repo, you will have to compile the frontend
yourself,
[..]

so it seems the release packages come with the frontend pre-compiled.

I just recently setup paperless-ngx on debian with the ansible role
available here:

https://github.com/paperless-ngx/ansible

which does not seem to use/install npm/node or other java script related tools
to build/install paperless-ngx from a relase tarball.

Maybe it makes sense to have a look again,

bye,
- michael