Processing
Self-hosted
How product activity is processed.
INDEPENDENT SOFTWARE
Paperless-ngx
An open-source self-hosted document-management system for scanning, OCR, classification, search and archival.
- Web · Self-hosted
- Self-hostable
- Open source
- Pricing
- Donation
Privacy at a glance
A quick view of the dimensions most useful for comparing this product. Unconfirmed facts stay explicitly unconfirmed.
Identity
Organization-managed
Whether an account is needed to use it.
Tracking
Not confirmed
Reported analytics and tracking posture.
Ownership & source
Open source
Availability of the product source code.
Offline support
Partial
Whether core use can continue offline.
Self-hosting
Yes
Whether you can run it on your own infrastructure.
What to know
Why it stands out
- The complete document workflow can run on a private server without transmitting documents to a vendor-managed cloud by default.
- The project is open source and supports OCR, searchable archival, structured metadata, automation and export.
Trade-offs
- Documents are stored as readable files on the server rather than with end-to-end or application-level encryption at rest.
- Administrators are responsible for authentication, TLS, disk encryption, network exposure, updates, backups and the privacy of optional external OCR or AI integrations.
Best for
Households and organizations willing to operate a private searchable archive for sensitive administrative documents.
Consider another option when
Users who require a managed zero-knowledge service or protection from the deployment administrator.
Technical details
Complete privacy-profile dimensions, grouped for easier review. Each value is retained from the catalogue record.
4 groups · 18 dimensions
- Processing
- Self-hosted
- Storage
- Self-hosted
- Offline support
- Partial
- Self-hosting
- Yes
- Data export
- Yes
- Data deletion
- Yes
Evidence
3 public sources collected
- Paperless-ngx documentationdocs.paperless-ngx.com · Documentation · self-hosted document processing, storage, OCR, export and optional integrations
- Paperless-ngx configurationdocs.paperless-ngx.com · Documentation · authentication, storage, external services and deployment configuration
- Paperless-ngx source repositorygithub.com · Source repository · open-source code, deployment and project licensing
Review status: ListedLast reviewed: Not yet reviewedCatalogue updated: 7 Jul 2026
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