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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- Document management: Upload, store, and manage your documents in one place.
- Organizations: Create organizations to manage documents with family, friends, or colleagues.
- Search: Quickly search for documents with full-text search.
- Authentication: User accounts and authentication.
- Dark Mode: A dark theme for those late-night document management sessions.
- Responsive Design: Works on all devices, from desktops to mobile phones.
- Open Source: The project is open-source and free to use.
- Self-hosting: Host your own instance of Papra using Docker or other methods.
- Tags: Organize your documents with tags.
- Email ingestion: Send/forward emails to a generated address to automatically import documents.
- Content extraction: Automatically extract text from images or scanned documents for search.
- In progress: i18n: Support for multiple languages.
- Coming soon: Tagging Rules: Automatically tag documents based on custom rules.
- Coming soon: Folder ingestion: Automatically import documents from a folder.
- Coming soon: SDK and API: Build your own applications on top of Papra.
- Coming soon: CLI: Manage your documents from the command line.
- Coming soon: Document sharing: Share documents with others.
- Coming soon: Document requests: Generate upload links for people to add documents.
- Coming maybe one day: Mobile app: Access and upload documents on the go.
- Coming maybe one day: Desktop app: Access and upload documents from your computer.
How does it differ from paperless?
I spun up version 0.3 to try it out, and it seems pretty and lean in comparison to paperless. However, it lacks a lot of functionality - I couldn't even change the name of the document.
I get it, its a very new project and I imagine it will kick ass once it matures, however it is too bare bones for me right now.
After a quick glance at the demo, I think the UI design is better than Paperless-ngx (at least on mobile). But, it only has tags. Not correspondents and document types. It also lacks the automatic matching feature, advanced search filters, custom fields, and customizable document views that Paperless has.
Well it did say minimalistic.
Tbh, paperless has a load of stuff I don't use anyway.
So I'm staying with paperless-ngx, then
I would be interested in a simplified version of paperless. Don’t get me wrong, it’s impressive. But I don’t really need all the powerful options it has, and wouldn’t mind something less complex to manage.