So glad you mentioned Docspell! Just started getting into self-hosting and was looking into paperless-ngx though Docspell looks more geared toward what I want.
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daco@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I use docspell and I find it great. It runs on VM on an old microserver running proxmox.
There is also Mayan edms based on Django, but it has to many features for my use case.
Lalaz4@kbin.social 1 year ago
daco@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I’m happy it helped.
I tried many systems (paperless and it’s derívales also) and I found docspell is a lot easier to use and has all the features I need.- I can archive emails by moving them to a category and docspell converts it to pdf and saves it to the database.
- I can choose a file system storage or a database storage. I chose database storage (Postgres, which is also the default) because is a lot easier to backup)
- I love the way I can categorize the files by adding recipient and sender. That way I can filter all the files related to a specific person.
- I can export all the files in a filter to a zip file.
- I can batch edit.
That as a summary :)
My only recommendations are
- to deploy it using a tag in docker and not using automatically the latest version. That way you are in control of the updates.
- And always do database backups :) (using a tag in docker means you can always redeploy a specific version.
aksdb@feddit.de 1 year ago
It looks like docspell might even be heavier than paperless-ngx, given that I need to spin up at least 3 JVMs. Thanks for mentioning it anyway; don’t get me wrong. But my current quest is for a lightweight solution.
Current contender might be SeedDMS, but it’s a more generic DMS, not so much focused as paperless-ngx. I miss the gallery view, for example.