A new release of Paperless-ngx, a web-based document management application that converts paper documents into electronic documents available for full-text search, download, and online storage, is available. The code is written in Python using the Django framework and distributed under the GPLv3 license. To get acquainted with the capabilities of the system, a demo site demo.paperless-ngx.com (login/password - demo/demo) has been prepared.
Paperless-ngx is a fork of the paperless-ng project, which in turn is a fork of the original paperlsess project (forks were created to continue development after the maintenance of past developers ceased). After uploading the scanned document in any available way (via FTP, via the web interface, via the Android application, via e-mail via IMAP), the program performs optical character recognition (OCR) using the Tesseract engine, then tagging is available in the interface (including automatic using machine learning), full-text search, as well as downloading a version of the document in PDF / A format or in office suite formats.
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 WebP format instead of PNG.
- The web interface settings are stored in the database.
- When changing the language of the document, a hint appears in the interface about the need to reload the page.
- If a Redis communication error occurs, more detailed information is shown.
- The ability to view the queue of documents for processing has been added to the web interface.
Source: opennet.ru