I only just started looking at paperless-ngx a few days ago at the recommendation of a colleague.

I have quite literally several thousand scans of documents, hundreds of other random documents going back ~30+ years and have a battery-bank powered ScanSnap S1300i I use to keep everything topped off. These all live in a ZFS snapshot’d NAS. I was a long-time user of NeatDesk and their desktop scanner and proprietary software back in the day, until they decided to burn themselves to the ground with poor decisions.

I started testing ngx late last week, and while it looks interesting, it still has at least a few blind spots (which I intend to try to PR/help fix), including lack of rendering of some pretty common file formats. A simple pandoc or similar transformation of Markdown for example, could be an easy fix (#3674 addresses this FR).

The lengthy list of feature requests is going to slow down delivery of some of these, but it would help if we could help the paperless-ngx community with testing, prioritization and coding/PRs where possible, to help accelerate these features.

It really does seem like one of the best self-hosted apps for what it does, but I suspect they’re going to get drowned by the backlog soon enough.

What are your most commonly needed features of paperless that aren’t in the main project yet? What would you add if you had the means?

Those prices are so far out of reality, compared to their MSRP counterparts from some basic online retailers selling the exact same part. Well over 2x markup in some cases (those Seagate drives, for example).

Hard pass.

All fun and games until you’re on a restricted network where even OpenVPN is blocked

This is my life. Customer’s site does DPI and terminates any VPN traffic on any port or protocol before connection is even established. Their VPN works, anything else gets dropped.

Now do it without allowing a third-party control ingress access to your home LAN.