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Today's #FreeSoftwareAdvent is paperless-ngx, a key part of keeping us, well, paperless.
It is a document management tool, but I use it in a very basic way: it is hooked up to our scanner, and anything we scan gets automatically converted to PDF and OCRd. We then shred the paper. I try to scan, and shred, everything on the day that it arrives.
It is particularly useful around tax return time, as it means I can easily get the information I need from stuff which people have posted to us.
@neil I use paperless with basic tags and it's awesome.
@neil that looks useful. Not only for letters etc, but also for organising documents that I photograph on research visits to archives.
@rpbook your use case may also be covered by #Tropy, although that is a desktop application. https://www.tropy.org/ @neil
@neil If one has got a HP (Desk/Office)Jet they can use https://github.com/manuc66/node-hp-scan-to#supported-devices for scanning directly to paperless.
@neil How is it hooked up to your scanner?
@neil hey that's my baby! It's been forked a few times since I stepped away from the project, but it's just awesome to see it coming up on my feed from time to time 'cause it remains popular.
https://github.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx/graphs/contributors
@danielquinn Oh, cool! Thank you :)
This is a bonfire demo instance for testing purposes
