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Table of Contents

Mobile & Desktop Apps
API Clients
Monitoring
Add-Ons
Scripts
Hosting Providers

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Mobile & Desktop Apps

Paperless has been around for a while now, and people have built tools that interact with it.

Please note that the current Paperless-ngx team does not explicitly endorse, support or contribute to any of the projects / tools listed here.

If you're one of them, please reach out and we can add your project to the list or you can update this wiki yourself. Current projects include:

Mobile
- Paperless Mobile: Android by Anton Stubenbord
  A modern, feature rich app for Paperless-ngx.
- Paperless Share: Android by Quinn Casey
  Share any files from your application with Paperless-ngx. Very simple, but works with all mobile scanning apps that allow you to share scanned documents.
- QuickScan: iOS by iSolid apps
  Free, feature-rich app, that supports scanning directly into Paperless.
- Scan4Paperless: iOS by Christian Hofmann
  Scanning & feeding your Paperless instance made easy.
See also the Wiki page about recommended mobile scanner apps.
Desktop
- Scan to Paperless: Python by Stéphane Brunner
  Scan and prepare (crop, deskew, OCR, ...) your documents for use in Paperless-ngx.
- PaperlessUploader: Python by Walfrosch92
  Upload documents to your self-hosted Paperless-ngx via right-click (Windows) or by dropping files onto the Dock (macOS)
- Paperless-Scannner: Python by: nfons
  Scan client that can scan from your scanner and upload directly to paperless instance.
Cross-Device
- Paperparrot: macOS/iOS/iPadOS by Leo Wehrfritz
  A native Swift/SwiftUI client. Works offline and supports network scanners.
- Swift Paperless: iOS/iPadOS by Paul Gessinger
  Native app for interacting with a Paperless-ngx installation to manage documents.
- Less Paper: macOS/iOS/iPadOS by AptumTek
  Yet another native iOS app for paperless-ngx (supporting forward-auth like Authelia or Authentik).

Former Projects

Mobile
- ~~Paperless App~~: Android by Johann Bauer
  A mobile application for Paperless-ngx.
Desktop
- ~~Paperless Desktop~~: macOS by Thomas Brüggemann
  macOS app that uses the paperless API to manage your document scans.

API Clients

Paperless Mobile: Dart by Anton Stubenbord
Uses its own API client.
Paperhooks: Go by Michael Hanselmann
Toolkit for writing consumption hooks, includes a REST API client.
PyPaperless: Python by Tobias Schulz
Asynchronous wrapper for the REST API.
Paperless-ngx CLI: Python by Marcel Brückner
A command-line interface for Paperless-ngx.
paperless-rs: Rust by boul2gom
An asynchronous library for the Paperless-ngx document manager.
Paperless-ngx Document Data Exporter (dde): VBA by dast5022
A template for Microsoft Excel to export document data to Excel via REST API.
Paperless Export API: C# by Sandro Lange
A .NET 8 based Web API to access the Paperless-ngx API and export documents and metadata into a .zip-file containing an Excel file with all the metadata and the corresponding .pdf files.

Monitoring

prometheus-paperless-exporter: Go by Michael Hanselmann
A Prometheus metrics exporter. Uses the REST API.

Add-Ons

Paperless Mailservice: Go by carlosz1986
Sends custom tagged documents to one or more defined email addresses (different rulesets possible).
paperless-gpt: Go by icereed
A tool designed to generate accurate and meaningful document titles and tags for Paperless-ngx using Large Language Models (LLMs).
paperless-ai: JavaScript/NodeJS by Clusterzx
An automated document analyzer for Paperless-ngx using OpenAI API to automatically analyze and tag your documents and add correspondents.
paperless-mcp: JavaScript/NodeJS by Nick Loui
Allows for interacting with Paperless-ngx using AI clients, such as Claude Desktop, through MCP (Model Context Protocol).
paperless-mcp (TypeScript fork): TypeScript/NodeJS by Baruch Odem
A community-driven fork of nloui’s MCP server, fully open source and migrated to TypeScript. Enables AI clients (like Claude Desktop) to manage Paperless-ngx via MCP, with a focus on extensibility and community contributions.
paperless-nextcloud-sync: bash by Florian Frei
Real-time synchronization from Paperless-ngx to Nextcloud (or any other WebDAV location, like ownCloud or OpenCloud).

Scripts

Paperless Scripts Collection: Shell Python by Marcel Brückner & Others
A community-sourced collection of (not only) Shell scripts around Paperless-ngx.
paperless-ngx-postprocessor: Python by Jeremy Gillula
A powerful and customizable postprocessing script to automatically set titles, ASNs, and created dates based on data extracted from the contents of your documents.
Paperless ASN List Exporter: Python by Christopher
Python script that fetches documents within a specified ASN range via API from Paperless-ngx, optionally group them by custom fields (e.g., "StorageBox"), and export the results to tab-separated CSV files.
paperless-tsa: Shell by Butanal
Post-consume script for paperless-ngx, allowing to automatically timestamp uploaded documents against an RFC 3161 timestamping authority (TSA).

Hosting Providers

As noted above, the Paperless-ngx team does not explicitly verify or endorse any of the products listed here.
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