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A Synology NAS running Portainer (https://www.portainer.io/) running Paperless NGX (https://github.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx)

This works better than I can possibly tell you.

I have an Epson WorkForce ES-580W that I bought when my mother passed away to bulk scan documents and it scans everything, double-sided if required, multi-page PDFs if required, at very high speed and uploads everything to OneDrive, at which point I drag and drop everything into Paperless.

I could, thinking about it, have the scanner email stuff to Paperless. Might investigate that today.

Paperless will OCR it and make it all searchable. This setup is amazing, I love living in the future.

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I have Paperless watching a network folder from my NAS. The scanner scans directly into that folder and Paperless picks it up and processes it within a couple seconds. Even if Paperless went down for a bit (which happened before I upgraded my server), the files remain on the shared drive until it comes back online.

Without that, I had paper piling up waiting to be scanned.

IME Paperless is nice as idea, but really buggy... Sometimes search does work for OCRed text but not for labels. Sometimes labels themselves are not shown or need to be written/edited by hand browsing it's storage.

Beside that is a nice idea, but too focused on scanned stuff, today many docs are not scanned nor pdfs.

That’s quite cool, I might add that. I did set up E-Mail watching using an iCloud account and it’s working well too. Must go donate some money to the Paperless team!

I haven't looked at Portainer before, what does it give you that just running a Docker instance on the NAS doesn't do?

Generically, Portainer can manage multiple servers at once, each running their own Docker.

For home server usage, I just use it as a frontend to docker-compose files that gives me a pretty UI I can access from a web browser, instead of needing to SSH in to the home server.

Well, a lovely management system, basically. One can run and edit Docker Compose configurations in the browser, see everything that’s running, manage environment variables and see the logs. I mean, having written all that, I’m wondering why I don’t run it on my Mac instead of Docker Desktop.

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