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Interesting approach with the ASN — haven’t started using that feature yet. If I understand correctly, you add a QR ASN to each document you need to keep a physical copy of? And that sticker also has the ASN in human readable form? So you would then add many documents at once to the feeder, and Paperless will read the QR and also split documents whenever a new code appears?

What about documents you don’t want to keep physically? Is there a way to get Paperless to split them automatically as well if you add many to the feeder?

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dan@upvote.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
And that sticker also has the ASN in human readable form?

Yes! They look like this: Image

So you would then add many documents at once to the feeder, and Paperless will read the QR and also split documents whenever a new code appears? What about documents you don’t want to keep physically? Is there a way to get Paperless to split them automatically as well if you add many to the feeder?

Paperless supports two different splitting methods:

If it encounters an ASN QR code, it’ll split at that point and keep the page with the barcode

If it encounters a special barcode that’s used as a separator sheet, it’ll split at that point and delete the page with the barcode. By default it looks for a “Patch T” barcode, and you can a page with a Patch T barcode from www.alliancegroup.co.uk/patch-codes.htm
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- BennyInc@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Thanks, this sounds really useful. Patch T sounds like some manual sorting work, but I guess with the option to reuse those separator pages it is still better than manual splitting or - worse - single scanning.
  
  I haven’t looked into paperless-ai yet, but I hope my machine would be beefy enough for this task — worst case I guess it might take a little longer to process all docs.
  
  Now I only still need to decide on a good archiving method. I read some article a long time ago about the pros and cons of different document archiving methods used by professional archivers. Some prefer horizontal stacking in boxes, while others prefer vertical stacks in vertical boxes. Pretty interesting nerdy topic 😀
  
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  - dan@upvote.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    
    I haven’t looked into paperless-ai yet, but I hope my machine would be beefy enough for this task
    
    You need a GPU with a decent amount of VRAM to get LLMs working well locally. I don’t have a new enough GPU to be useful - my server just has the Intel iGPU, and my desktop PC only has a GTX1080, which is from before Nvidia added Tensor cores for AI.
    
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    BennyInc@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Thanks, I’ll look into it. For completionists: This is the article about how to properly archive paper: peelarchivesblog.com/…/how-do-archivists-package-…
    
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