So I’m setting up a home server for personal purposes, among which, storing personal documents/files… accumulated over the years is now my next target. I’ve already had:
- Nextcloud to upload/sync files from my mobile devices
- Calibre to manage ebooks, magazines
- Jellyfin to manage multimedia files, including photos
I’m looking for a solution to upload/manage documents. Could be my Ids, could be my rental contract, or recovery passphrases for my accounts, etc.
There are a lot that can be found from here:
But I’d love to get real experience and advice. Something that can run with docker and maybe, probably integrate nicely with the rest of the above stuff.
Nextcloud works great for document management, if you additionally install tesseract OCR and Elasticsearch. Then you can use any smartphone document-scanner (I personally use “swift scan”) to add new documents via WebDAV Upload, but I think most of them support WebDAV nowadays. The Nextcloud app even has a document scanner feature built in, but it’s not very good.
I have been reading about the features of paperless-ng and I don’t see what that software additionally brings to the table that a properly setup nextcloud cannot do. Only that I have Nextcloud anyways and it can do much more than document management and I love to have all aspects of my “personal cloud” in one software tool.
I am very unclear on what happens with the OCR output and how that is associated with the file and how it os searched?