Transform Your Document Chaos with Paperless: A Self-Hosting Guide with Docker

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📂 Tired of searching for important documents in a sea of paperwork and emails? In this video, discover the power of Paperless, an open-source self-hosted document management system. Join me as I guide you through setting up Paperless with Docker, turning your document nightmare into an organized digital haven. 🚀
🔍 Topics Covered:
• Introduction to Paperless
• Setting Up Paperless with Docker
• Say Goodbye to Lost Documents!
📌 Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction
0:25 - Paperless-ngx Overview
2:52 - Paperless-ngx Setup
11:51 - Accessing Paperless-ngx deployment
15:45 - Outro
🔗 Helpful Links:
Techdox Docs - docs.techdox.nz/paperless/
Paperless GitHub Repository - github.com/paperless-ngx/pape...
Paperless Demo - demo.paperless-ngx.com/accoun...
Discord Channel - / discord

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@Techdox 6 месяцев назад

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@Techdox 7 месяцев назад

If this video helped you, feel free to share a "Thanks" to support the channel!

@chrisumali9841 6 месяцев назад

Thanks for the demo and info, have a great day

@bkahlerventer 6 месяцев назад

Awesome video, love the fast nature of the video, I usually pause videos should I need more time.

@Techdox 6 месяцев назад

That’s what I figured as well, if I cut to the points then viewers can pause and rewind as needed :)

@stephanejaglin221 6 месяцев назад

Great tutorial, worked directly out of the box following your instructions on OMV6 headless server, Thx a lot! (not too fast, English is not my 1st language and I used the pause option...)

@Techdox 6 месяцев назад

Glad to hear it!

@gismoscherer 2 месяца назад

perfect! thx a lot works right away..

@ms7165 6 месяцев назад

Up and running! Thanks.

@Techdox 6 месяцев назад

Great to hear! Enjoy it

@alanjrobertson 7 месяцев назад

Looks like an interesting container, will check it out. I've got a fairly decent Dropbox folder structure but this looks pretty cool with the built in OCR.

@Techdox 7 месяцев назад

Let me know how you find it if you do check it out

@ArawnFR 7 месяцев назад

Nextcloud now has OCR too but paperless seem pretty interesting as it seems pretty smooth and fluid compared to the horrible nextcloud ux

@marcelohx 5 месяцев назад

Thanks!

@OverdriveCz 7 месяцев назад

Thats very interesting akternative of zipping and syncing with onedrive or cloud or anything the paperless is way more easy and practical

@fbifido2 5 месяцев назад

@11:07 - I wanted to see the directory after the creation process!!!

@Techdox 7 месяцев назад

I hope you enjoyed this video 😀

@MartinHiggs84 7 месяцев назад

Nice video 😊 I would alter the data/media volumes to docker folder defaults to /usr/src/paperless

@Techdox 7 месяцев назад

@@MartinHiggs84 Yeah, I was debating if it would be worth changing them from volumes to binds in that folder

@MartinHiggs84 7 месяцев назад

@Techdox that makes sense - I was thinking just need one backup set for/docker then everything covered as expand

@Breeegz 7 месяцев назад

I have a suggestion for showing ip addr outputs.. if you add "-br" is cleans it up a lot. so "ip -br a" or "ip -br addr" would make it easier to demo.

@Techdox 7 месяцев назад

That is a lot cleaner, thank you :)

@Breeegz 7 месяцев назад

@@Techdox it is what finally tipped the scales for me to switch off of ifconfig

@fvgoya 6 месяцев назад

very helpful!

@Lunolux 6 месяцев назад

thx

@fbifido2 5 месяцев назад

@14:50 - say you have a lot of documents to upload (doc, docx, excel, ppt, pptx, pdf, txt, png, jpg, pub, etc...) (about 5TB). - what's the fastest way to import them?

@Michaelmannphotography 5 месяцев назад

I am on QNAP using container station and have been trying to figure this out now for days. Could get the basic linuxserver image working with access to the front end but all sort of errors after that. Do you have any advice for getting this going in container station?

@mystereit73 6 месяцев назад

I tested a lot of solutions but reverted to a single archive folder where files are stored with tags in the filename...easy and fast to search...has been working well for almost 20 years

@Techdox 6 месяцев назад

Hey, if it works it works! :)

@BestRestaurantToEat 5 месяцев назад

Hi, I want to see the database. I tried port 5432, 3306. it does not show up. Any idea how to access it as i want to see the table structure

@Gery-zg7ky 4 месяца назад

thx bro

@fbifido2 5 месяцев назад

what to do if you need to upgrade all the components, db/broker/tika, etc...?

@fbifido2 5 месяцев назад

@7:02 - it says you need 3 files (d*.yml, d*.env, ".env"), why? @11:01 -

@Tedpikel 6 месяцев назад

Nice tutorial. Does it grab text from images/scanned documents? If not is there another program that can do this?

@Techdox 6 месяцев назад

Yeah. Should do that just fine :)

@EduardoSantanaSeverino 7 месяцев назад

Thank you for the video. I wonder if there is something similar but for nextcloud. Because for me, nextcloud is already managing my library of documents, but it is still missing some functionality, and the presented tools seem useful. However, how do you import the existing bulk of existing files? Of how to keep it in sync with nextcloud? Thank you. I am sure some people might have the same question.

@Techdox 7 месяцев назад

In terms of keeping it in sync with Nextcloud, you could create like an Rsync between Nextcloud and Paperless and copy the files between the Nextcloud volume and the Paperless volume. I might explore this and see how you could do it. I’m not sure if Nextcloud had any extensions that can do this, worth a look though.

@ArawnFR 7 месяцев назад

there is OCR on nextcloud

@Techdox 7 месяцев назад

@@ArawnFR well that answers that :D

@AnnoyingErrors41 6 месяцев назад

Quick warning (LMK if this was because something that I did wrong..) if this is your first time installing it, the CMD prints will be having seizures. Not to worry tho, if you look closely, it is just trying to download all the dependent files.

@KadargoGaming 5 месяцев назад

Can you edit or create new ones on it?

@staticalmo 3 месяца назад

did you ever see SMEs using this?

@Amazzinguy 6 месяцев назад

Hi am the "newbie" so at 16:57 i am stuck , naturally..i went through the video and want to setup on my Mac..to test --the demo site failed to load unless i need to load a Office document to test -- but back to the 16:57 -- do i need to have a Server Setup---- if installed Docker on my mac can i setup a server ?

@Techdox 6 месяцев назад

Yeah, you should be able to run this just fine locally if you have docker on your Mac

@ewfzappadis 6 месяцев назад

Thank you so much. Is there any way to put a lot of documents directly in one or the other directory. I've heard that putting documents in the "consume" directory would make them be treated by paperless, but in my configuration it doesn't work... any idea?

@Techdox 6 месяцев назад

Really good question I’ll have to look into it

@ewfzappadis 6 месяцев назад

Thank you

@Fayaz-Rehman 6 месяцев назад

Interesting - Do you have a yaml manifest for paperless to deploy on kubernetes ?

@Techdox 6 месяцев назад

I don't but you could chuck the compose into ChatGPT to convert it haha

@stan8926 6 месяцев назад

docker compose up -d or docker-compose up -d?

@nunes_a813 7 месяцев назад

where are all the documents being stored / saved at? docker/paperless?

@Techdox 7 месяцев назад

The files are stored in a docker volume called media, the full path will be something like. /var/lib/docker/volumes/paperless_media/_data/documents You need root permission to access these volumes though

@gourabdas9152 5 месяцев назад

Hey!! I have installed the paperless-ngx on ubuntu server using docker, and now I wanted to mount the points between the docker container(paperless-ngx) & my TrueNAS server, as all the documents are organized in my TrueNAS Server. Is it possible to do ? Pls reply if possible 🙏🙏

@Techdox 5 месяцев назад

I’m assuming you have a network share on your NAS? You can setup docker network volumes, if your network share is already mounted on your host then you can point docker to that directory as if it was any other directory

@PWingert1966 6 месяцев назад

This might b a nice addition to my home server running on an HP DL60 9!

@ndchartier 5 месяцев назад

Now that this works, can you access it outside your local network trough a Cloudflare tunnel?

@Techdox 5 месяцев назад

You sure can

@icojones 7 месяцев назад

Hi, it's a great guide which worked flawlessly until trying to create the super user. When I enter the command docker-compose run --rm webserver createsuperuser, I get: -bash: docker-compose: command not found. I can't work out what's causing it and how to resolve it. Can you help please?

@Techdox 7 месяцев назад

Are you on Ubuntu, try install docker-compose. 'sudo apt install docker-compose' also make sure you are still in the same directory as the compose file :)

@icojones 7 месяцев назад

@@Techdox you're a star! Thank you for such a quick response...it must be breakfast time there! ;-)

@Techdox 7 месяцев назад

It is indeed! Coffee time :)

@matuopm 7 месяцев назад

AI treatment of documents would be great to autopick the categories and fill out the date and so on

@Techdox 7 месяцев назад

That would be awesome, upload it and it just manages it all for you. Surely it could be implemented without too much hassle if you leveraged an exisiting AI like GPT

@Belgabor 6 месяцев назад

It says on the front page "Uses machine-learning to automatically add tags, correspondents and document types to your documents.", so it looks as if it's already there

@YeahNoTellTheTruth 6 месяцев назад

Not everything needs to be coined AI, in this case it's just a matter of auto filling titles and dates, whether that's dates in files or document created dates, or file names. Artificial intelligence is not that.

@quadcom 6 месяцев назад

was it just me or did you miss defining some persistent volumes in the YAML to store the imported docs? If that's the case that would mean all the imports would live in the container and when you update the images all the imports would be deleted!

@Techdox 6 месяцев назад

It's using volumes, so the data is stored amoung 4 volumes which you can see at the bottom of the compose. data, media, pgdata and redisdata

@fa8ster 6 месяцев назад

Any ideas on auto-tagging, categorization and document clustering powered by AI?

@Techdox 6 месяцев назад

I myself am curious on how that works. They mentioned it was a thing, so I’m keen to understand how it works

@YeahNoTellTheTruth 6 месяцев назад

Can you import a current document archive or is it single document at a time? Might be painful for some who have a folder structure already in place. Or can you keep a folder structure and still use this? I mean I tend to have other files like images in the folders which is relevant to the document and separating them means you're making your actions longer to find relevant documents.

@Techdox 6 месяцев назад

I would say you could point paperless to your current location of files and it should import them all

@Schniebel89 6 месяцев назад

11:00 docker compose up -d no configuration file provided: not found

@Techdox 6 месяцев назад

Make sure to run the command where your compose file is

@wilko1251 6 месяцев назад

Which terminal do you use?

@Techdox 6 месяцев назад

iterm2 using a Dracula theme with the fig plugin :)

@DariusOosthuizenSuper 6 месяцев назад

I'm struggling to get Paperless-NGX to run, in the logs it says: "FATAL: password authentication failed for user "paperless"" - If you can, please give me some advice.

@Techdox 6 месяцев назад

Did you create the user after deploying Paperless? :)

@DariusOosthuizenSuper 6 месяцев назад

@@Techdox I pulled the images with Compose and then tried to create the superuser with the command in the Docker-Compose file, but before it runs it gives me this error. So , the error comes on before I need to create the superuser... Thanks for replying...

@DariusOosthuizenSuper 6 месяцев назад

@@Techdox It seems to be working now after I changed the permissions for the db volume. But thanks for your help!

@Techdox 6 месяцев назад

@@DariusOosthuizenSuper great to hear!

@orlandofury 7 месяцев назад

Hey very use full any Idea of how to use the Rest API to have it as a document repository for an app or multiple apps? A link or video will be helpfull.

@Techdox 7 месяцев назад

That’s a great idea, thanks for the suggestion. Their APIs look very straight forward

@justinbailey6515 6 месяцев назад

This seems more convoluted than using the ocr scanning functions of google drive. Why not just use that?

@Techdox 6 месяцев назад

Well you could but that defeats the entire point of the video haha. This is as an alternative to something like Google Drive where you are in control and selfhosting

@sebastiankastner7514 6 месяцев назад

What about persistance? If the container dies, your database dies too, doesn't it?

@Techdox 6 месяцев назад

Two containers, but even if they do die all the data is stored on volumes that live on the host machine

@VisionaryAudioandVideo 6 месяцев назад

Mac OS does this already. Just scan give it time to index and you’re done.

@Techdox 6 месяцев назад

Yeah, like I have mentioned to others. This is focusing on a self hosted service that can be used regardless of device you use. More of a central repository for your documentation then on an individuals device

@VisionaryAudioandVideo 6 месяцев назад

My bad, I have a file system that suits me and I didn’t listen to what you were saying.

@James7104 6 месяцев назад

What is the benefit of this software compared to Evernote?

@Techdox 6 месяцев назад

They are pretty different right? Evernote is a hosted service you use and has paid features and is a note taking app. Paperless is a document management service with OCR that you selfhost

@James7104 6 месяцев назад

@@Techdox I understand but even the free Evernote version has similarities. All documents uploaded are searchable, even text in images. That is why I like it so much. This solution seems more complicated 🤔

@Techdox 6 месяцев назад

@@James7104 the big difference here is looking at self hosted alternatives, rather than trusting other companies with data. For instance I wouldn’t be comfortable hosting medical data here to store long term compared to a self hosted solution that I control. It’s like a lot of what I cover in this channel, Nextcloud could be Google or Dropbox etc it’s all about alternatives :)

@James7104 6 месяцев назад

Thanks for pointing that out. @@Techdox

@Humuku 6 месяцев назад

Or I just use macOS spotlight which also indexes content.

@Techdox 6 месяцев назад

For sure, it’s nice to have dedicated services for this though so you can access it and get the benefits from any device :)

@cmohanc 6 месяцев назад

Docker being a paid service, the software is not free. Is there any other method?

@Techdox 6 месяцев назад

Docker is most definitely still free, the business editions are not though but you don’t need that

@keesverhagen9227 4 месяца назад

It is a g❤reat video for those without knowledge about installing paperless in docker on a Nas. But the video has a big but. Someone without knowledge can absolutely not follow it. Within one minute someone is lost. Because many times you talk so fast and not really clear. Please delete this video and create a new one. We really need a version for Dummies. I have watched this video 6 times now and to no use at all. I know this is also me because i have no knowledge at all. But many times i replayed certain parts trying to understand what you are saying. But with the best intentions i can not. And i so wish that i could learn to do all of this. If someone knows another good educational video for dummies you would make me very happy. Or something on the Web ?

@Techdox 4 месяца назад

Yeah, I’m definitely not deleting my best performing video with over a 100k views haha. I can understand if you are getting stuck because the concept of docker and docker compose maybe new to you. Check out this video I made around getting started with Selfhosting ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-OfGmfZmpVsk.htmlsi=Vnte0b_Qof4No4Yj

@keesverhagen9227 4 месяца назад

@@Techdox So many times i have watched it. 😇 I will watch the one from your links. Thanks.

@Techdox 4 месяца назад

Where are you getting stuck?

@user-fv9ie3yz2e 7 месяцев назад

@8:20 🤮

@Techdox 7 месяцев назад

The environment file is really only being used for a small amount of variables unless we were making it public, you could remove it if you wanted and bring timezone etc over

@user-fv9ie3yz2e 7 месяцев назад

In general, the amount of syntax in those files is disgusting....there should be some abstraction made, there is no way that in future by adding more complexity into the these types of files would be able to manage, it will be just added on top and new frameworks and it will be big mess@@Techdox

@Techdox 7 месяцев назад

@@user-fv9ie3yz2e If you think this is bad, you should see Kubernetes manifest files haha. It may not seem like it be there is some structure and logic to this :D

@tmdx6345 6 месяцев назад

Your like my brother and other techies. You know your stuff but don’t speak in human terms. So this is running in tor Nas / Docker dang

@Techdox 6 месяцев назад

No Tor or NAS haha, just docker. The thing is if docker itself is new to you that’s why I link the get started video. Explaining the basics in every video would make them an hour each

@AndrewTa530 3 месяца назад

Docker or K8’s?

@paultech9385 6 месяцев назад

Dude, slow down, annunciate and speak clearly. You have good info to share, that’s why I’m watching it, but the staccato delivered makes my head go dizzy. 🤪

@Techdox 6 месяцев назад

Haha! I hear you, I’ll make sure to keep this in mind for future video, the kiwi accent won’t help either 😂

@smplchmp 6 месяцев назад

no issues here, sounds normal to me

@hallowatcher 6 месяцев назад

Normal here as well, great content man!

@kalebburris6425 6 месяцев назад

Yeah no problem. Man's got an accent not poor communication.

@followthemoonrabbit 6 месяцев назад

Could follow you at 1.25x with no problem. And English is my second language. It's just kiwi :-) Please don't get discouraged, you're helping regional dialect awareness :-)

@andreaswiehl8482 6 месяцев назад

i´ve just tried to install with portainer. i put the code from "docker-compose.postgres-tika.yml" in a stack and adjust only my port and a few volumes. I get an error. after that i put the code 1:1 in a stack and deploy. also there i got an error . what i am doing wrong ?

@Techdox 6 месяцев назад

Hey, what’s the error?

@andreaswiehl8482 6 месяцев назад

@@Techdox this error message showed up " Deployment Error => failed to deploy stack: open /data/compose/16/docker-compose.env: no such file or directory"

@quadcom 6 месяцев назад

did you import the env file inside the portainer UI at the bottom of the page?

@andreaswiehl8482 6 месяцев назад

No I don't because I thougt there is everything commented out and the gid and uid are not neccesarry. You mean put the Code from both direct in the table of portainer stack and then deploy? I will test this and Feedback here. Thank you both for your Support!

@andreaswiehl8482 6 месяцев назад

Now i`ve got PL running, i`ve just took the "docker-compose.portainer.yml" from github, that was a lot easier for me ;). but now i have the next issue i have to dela with ... the loggin steup with the CLI. I ve running docker on a omv media server in portainer, i have nothing to do yet in CLI`s. I can acces via putty on my WIN pc and login in my user on my server but thats it. I have noch clue how to get to the path in the video "~docker/paperless" to set the needed command line to create user

@stan8926 6 месяцев назад

docker compose up -d or docker-compose up -d?

@Techdox 6 месяцев назад

They are the same, but docker compose is the new one and I would suggest using that one

@stan8926 6 месяцев назад

@@Techdox It did not work for me so I had to use docker-compose.