Papra is a minimalistic document management and archiving platform that helps people organize, secure, and archive documents in one place.
It’s designed for long-term document storage and retrieval, supports both personal and team-style organization through organizations and tags, and can be self-hosted or used as a managed service.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Stores and manages documents in a centralized archive.
- Uses full-text search to quickly find documents.
- Supports organizations for managing documents with teams, family, or colleagues.
- Organizes files with tags and automated tagging rules.
- Imports documents through email ingestion and folder ingestion.
- Extracts text from images and scanned documents for search.
- Offers self-hosting with Docker and other deployment methods.
- Provides an API, SDK, webhooks, and CLI for integration and automation.
- Works across desktop and mobile devices with a responsive interface.
Website: github.com/papra-hq/papra
Support:
Developer: Corentin Thomasset
License: GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
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