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Papra, the minimalistic document archiving platform

Papra is a minimalistic document management and archiving platform. It is designed to be simple to use and accessible to everyone. Papra is a platform for long-term document storage and management, like a digital archive for your documents.

Forget about that receipt of that gift you bought for your friend last year, or that warranty for your new phone. With Papra, you can easily store, forget, and retrieve your documents whenever you need them.

A live demo of the platform is available at demo.papra.app (no backend, client-side local storage only).

Github Project: https://github.com/papra-hq/papra

Feature List

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How is this different from just having good folder structure for your pdfs? Not trying to be a contrarian here; just curious about the selling points.
- At least for paperless, one of the selling points is OCR plus text search. Do you can dump in all your receipts as photos, and then 3 years later, search "lawnmower" and find the receipt for it. (I dont know if this applies for this software, but its very nice in paperless)
  
  That does sound useful
  
  Damn I've gotta set up one of these, whether it be this one or paperless. The text recognition in photos would be huge.
  
  Just to lightly temper your expectations, the OCR isnt perfect, and you may need to add your own tags/text, but its still an awesome system.
  
  So basically gmail's motto: "search. dont sort"
  
  Not necessarily, paperless offers various sorting and cataloguing features, as well as rules and basic learning. If you spend time setting it all up, it should drive itself in time and search may only be a fallback mechanism.
  It's really useful where you can tell it 'catalogue this as x, but also store it as y'. So, again, if done properly, you can move to another system with already well catalogued document structure.
- Lots of things are improved with a GUI. IMO this is one of them.
  Having a no-nonsense and predictable folder structure to store documents makes sense for those who are organized. For those who aren't, you can still use projects like this to sort data so they're retrievable by everyone, not just those who know and understand your folder structure.
  The intake emails are particularly interesting. Receive email with attachment and save it automatically. Excellent for repetitively collecting data without setting anything extra up. Just create an email alias for your intake, and distribute it. Wait for people to email shit to you.
  Great idea, IMO.

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