Paperparrot: Mobile Client for Paperless-ngx
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Paperparrot: Mobile Client for Paperless-ngx

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Paperparrot is a mobile client for Paperless-ngx, the self-hosted document management system.

Capture is the main use case

The hardest part of running a paperless archive is getting paper into it. Paperparrot turns a phone camera into the scanner: photograph a receipt or letter, upload it directly to Paperless-ngx, and let the server handle OCR, tagging, and filing. That closes the loop that otherwise requires walking to a desktop scanner.

Beyond uploading, it exposes full-text search across the archive, so finding a document while standing in a shop or on a phone call actually works.

Setup

It needs your Paperless-ngx URL and an API token from the instance. As with any archive containing your personal documents, keep the server off the public internet and reach it over a VPN.

Paperless Mobile and Swift Paperless cover the same job on their respective platforms, all built against the same API.

Related self-hosted apps

Paperless-ngx: Document Management and OCR ArchiveA document management system that OCRs scanned paperwork, tags and files it automatically, and makes years of documents searchable by their contents.Papra: Minimal Document Archiving With OCR, Tags, and Email ImportA lightweight document management platform with OCR, full-text search, rule-based tagging, email ingestion, organizations, and expiring share links, as a simpler alternative to Paperless-ngx.paperless-gpt: LLM-Powered OCR and Tagging for Paperless-ngxA companion for Paperless-ngx that uses vision LLMs for better OCR on poor scans and generates titles, tags, and correspondents, with a review screen before changes are applied. Supports Ollama, OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, and Gemini. MIT.Paperless-AI: LLM Tagging and Document Chat for Paperless-ngxAn add-on for Paperless-ngx that uses OpenAI, Ollama, and other LLMs to assign titles, tags, document types, and correspondents automatically, and lets you search documents by chatting with them. MIT; currently unmaintained.

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