Paperless-ngx is the one project in our catalog listed as a replacement for Dext. It is documents software with 47.4K GitHub stars. Below is how it measures against the questions people usually ask first.
Turn paper and PDFs into a searchable document archive.
Paperless-ngx replaces piles of paper and scattered PDFs with one archive on your own server. Documents are read, indexed and filed as they arrive, so finding a contract or invoice becomes a search rather than a hunt.
OCR scanned documents in more than 100 languages so every page is searchable.
Auto-assign tags, correspondents and document types with machine learning.
Import from email accounts and control access with per-document permissions.
What people use it for
Digitise a filing cabinet
Scan paper records, let OCR add searchable text, and find any letter or contract later with full-text search and highlighted matches.
File incoming documents automatically
Pull attachments from email accounts and let rules and machine learning assign tags, correspondents and document types.
Share documents with the right people
Use per-document permissions for colleagues and shareable links with optional expiry for clients.
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