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paperless-gpt

LLM-based OCR, titles, tags and document links for paperless-ngx

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MIT
Last commit
Oct 2026
Last release
Oct 2026

Overview

paperless-gpt is a companion service for paperless-ngx that calls an LLM to generate titles, tags, correspondents, created dates and custom fields, with a web UI for manual review or automatic processing. It can also replace the stock OCR with LLM OCR (OpenAI, Ollama, Mistral, Anthropic), Google Document AI, Azure Document Intelligence or a Docling server, and can produce searchable PDFs. It fills Document Link fields by extracting invoice, contract or case references and doing an exact lookup.

Who it is for: paperless-ngx users who want AI titles, tags and better OCR

Strengths

  • Supports OpenAI, Mistral, Anthropic, Azure OpenAI and local Ollama models
  • Four OCR backends: LLM, Google Document AI, Azure, Docling
  • Document linking uses exact whole-word lookup and leaves ambiguous matches unlinked
  • Prompts and per-document-type workflows editable in the web UI

Weaknesses

  • No built-in authentication; needs a reverse proxy or VPN
  • Works only with paperless-ngx, tested on 2.20.x and 3.0 beta
  • Hosted LLM and OCR options send document content to third parties
  • PDF_REPLACE mode deletes the original document after upload

What it needs

  • GPU optional
  • Docker + Compose
  • Needs paperless-ngx, LLM provider (OpenAI, Ollama, Mistral, Anthropic or Azure OpenAI)
  • Models: OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Mistral, Anthropic, Ollama
  • port 8080

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