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Paperless-AI
Auto-tags Paperless-ngx documents and adds RAG chat over the archive
- Stars
- 6k
- License
- MIT
- Last commit
- Mar 2026
- Last release
- Nov 2025
Overview
Paperless-AI watches a Paperless-ngx instance, sends new documents to OpenAI, Ollama, DeepSeek, OpenRouter, Gemini or other OpenAI-compatible backends and writes back title, tags, document type and correspondent. It adds RAG chat over the whole archive and a manual review page at /manual. The maintainer has declared the repo unmaintained pending a rewrite.
Who it is for: Paperless-ngx users wanting automated tagging
Strengths
- Assigns title, tags, document type and correspondent on new documents automatically
- RAG chat answers questions across the full Paperless archive
- Rules limit which documents get processed; manual mode for sensitive files
- Ollama support keeps processing local
Weaknesses
- Repo marked not maintained; rewrite and future uncertain
- Container must be restarted after first setup to build the RAG index
- No port, hardware or env var details in the README; see the wiki
- Paperless-ngx is adding native AI, which may supersede it
What it needs
- no GPU
- Docker + Compose
- Needs Paperless-ngx
- Models: Ollama (Mistral, Llama, Phi-3, Gemma-2), OpenAI, DeepSeek, OpenRouter, Perplexity, Together, LiteLLM, vLLM, Fastchat, Gemini
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