<![CDATA[Papermerge - Scan & OCR]]>"Open Source Document Management System for Digital Archives
Designed for scanned documents. Perfect software that will help you reduce paper clutter and keep your business organised."

The OCR looks decent and maybe better for personal use than MayanEDMS, which also looks excellent.

I can see it being a good pairing with Invoice Ninja / Firefly III.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/3700/papermerge-scan-ocrRSS for NodeTue, 19 May 2026 06:44:30 GMTSat, 14 Nov 2020 03:39:39 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Papermerge - Scan & OCR on Fri, 05 Mar 2021 02:28:11 GMT]]>@girish papermerge was indeed more difficult to package, but also, i really enjoy the auto processing in paperless much more. i didn't do any scientific tests, of course, but after working with both - it fit my needs. I now have an app with about 10K scanned docs on it, all OCRd, tagged, and quite nice!

that's not to say papermerge isn't good - just where i landed 🙂

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/27017https://forum.cloudron.io/post/27017Fri, 05 Mar 2021 02:28:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Papermerge - Scan & OCR on Wed, 03 Mar 2021 22:03:53 GMT]]>@girish said in Papermerge - Scan & OCR:

comparison between papermerge and paperless-ng ?

I tend to do this in the first instance

https://selfhosted.libhunt.com/compare-paperless-ng-vs-papermerge

Looks like Papermerge has the edge on paper but not a lot in it.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/26959https://forum.cloudron.io/post/26959Wed, 03 Mar 2021 22:03:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Papermerge - Scan & OCR on Wed, 03 Mar 2021 19:43:35 GMT]]>@doodlemania2 did you have any comparison between papermerge and paperless-ng ? It seems you have started focusing on the latter. Was it just because of packaging issues?

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/26947https://forum.cloudron.io/post/26947Wed, 03 Mar 2021 19:43:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Papermerge - Scan & OCR on Sat, 26 Dec 2020 00:26:21 GMT]]>@marcusquinn I've spoken with author - he's sympathetic but appears quite focused on iterative development of features. Don't blame him at all, just a different focus.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/22363https://forum.cloudron.io/post/22363Sat, 26 Dec 2020 00:26:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Papermerge - Scan & OCR on Thu, 24 Dec 2020 14:14:44 GMT]]>@doodlemania2 V annoying when apps want to write data to their own directory and quite bad practice from a security point as executable code directories shouldn't be writable by anything other than the deployment process. That sounds like an upstream issue to report, maybe suggest a feature for a config setting for the write paths.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/22319https://forum.cloudron.io/post/22319Thu, 24 Dec 2020 14:14:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Papermerge - Scan & OCR on Thu, 24 Dec 2020 03:39:13 GMT]]>😞 still stuck but still tinkering - can't get past the app REALLY wanting r+w access to where it's installed. Might TRY to install it to /app/data just to get unstuck even though I know that's poop

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/22307https://forum.cloudron.io/post/22307Thu, 24 Dec 2020 03:39:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Papermerge - Scan & OCR on Thu, 17 Dec 2020 05:45:32 GMT]]>@doodlemania2 there are many things better than apache, and you can test without it..

https://www.toptal.com/python/pythons-wsgi-server-application-interface

Can also see about uWSGI.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/21830https://forum.cloudron.io/post/21830Thu, 17 Dec 2020 05:45:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Papermerge - Scan & OCR on Thu, 17 Dec 2020 02:38:55 GMT]]>@doodlemania2 Some progress - I'm checked in here (link). Do NOT try to run this - it will go kaboom. I've got to work with the author some to see if we can move mod_wsgi, try an embedded apache (in python's virtual environment) and a few other things.

Anyways, if you happen to know python, django, virtualenv - dive in and contribute! If not, I'll keep you all posted as things come together.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/21823https://forum.cloudron.io/post/21823Thu, 17 Dec 2020 02:38:55 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Papermerge - Scan & OCR on Tue, 15 Dec 2020 18:43:59 GMT]]>@doodlemania2 I've got this thing to a heartbeat status but it has lots of dependencies flying around - trying another approach to packaging to squash em. Will advise on first checkin.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/21716https://forum.cloudron.io/post/21716Tue, 15 Dec 2020 18:43:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Papermerge - Scan & OCR on Sun, 13 Dec 2020 21:00:55 GMT]]>I have begun to package this today. Hope to have something for comment in the next few days.

cc: @marcusquinn

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