A new release of Paperless-ngx is now available, a web application for handling documents that converts paper documents into electronic formats, making them accessible for full-text search, downloading, and online storage. The code is written in Python using the Django framework and is distributed under the GPLv3 license. A demo site has been prepared to explore the system's capabilities at demo.paperless-ngx.com (username/password — demo/demo).
Paperless-ngx is a fork of the paperless-ng project, which, in turn, branched from the original paperless project (forks were created to continue development after support by previous developers ceased). After uploading a scanned document via any available method (FTP, web interface, Android app, or email through IMAP), the software performs optical character recognition (OCR) using the Tesseract engine. Tagging (including automatic tagging using machine learning), full-text search, and uploading a document version in PDF/A format or office formats are available in the interface.
In the new version:
- Pre/post-processing scripts use environment variables instead of command line arguments.
- Thumbnails in the web interface have been converted to the WebP format instead of PNG.
- Web interface settings are saved in the database.
- When changing the document language, a prompt appears in the interface indicating that the page needs to be reloaded.
- In case of a connection error with Redis, more detailed information is displayed.
- The web interface has added the ability to view the queue of documents for processing.
Source: opennet.ru
