Paperless always had some sort of primitive AI for document classification and auto tagging. I haven’t yet read the changes on 3.x but I’ve been using it for years and it’s like a dumb AI that needs a lot of guidance and manual tagging at first, but as time goes on, it “figures out” every document you throw in the ingest. I’ve been sending it emails, or uploading straight from the mobile app and its amazing, can’t go back to a folder filled with “Download(739).pdf” or “IMG_4926.jpg” files of random recipts and invoices
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iamthetot@piefed.ca 1 week ago
I may be mistaken, but I had looked into Paperless before and saw they had AI features before this. Is it just more, or more in your face? I was under the impression they were optional, at least when I looked into it.
Willdrick@lemmy.world 1 week ago
vext01@feddit.uk 1 week ago I agree. The AI features were very lightweight before. Just for auto tagging etc.
Hope this isn’t a shitshow.
RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 1 week ago They added an AI chatbot that you can ask for information about the contents of the document you’re viewing. There’s more in the linked PR.
BartyDeCanter@piefed.social 1 week ago
Honestly, this is one of those things where you need to define what AI means. Paperless 2.x used a machine learning-backed OCR library called Tesseract that has been in development since 1985.
The current version does use a LSTM neural network, since 2018. Is that an AI? Fuck if I know because AI is a basically meaningless term.
It’s not an LLM or a diffusion model, which is what backs a lot of the things people are calling AI nowadays.