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by ornornor 932 days ago
I finally switched from my ancient Mayan EDMS running an outdated version on an Ubuntu 16.04 VM that I couldn’t upgrade because the Mayan docs for that version are not available anymore. I’m not a huge user but I shred everything I can and have around 1000 documents.

I have zero regrets so far. Paperless ngx is so much more user friendly, the automatic date extraction from OCR, the auto tagging and document type classification, and the ease to backup and restore sold me. I highly recommend it.
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justsomehnguy 932 days ago
> running an outdated version on an Ubuntu 16.04 VM that I couldn’t upgrade because the Mayan docs for that version are not available anymore

For years I was eyeing Mayan as one the variants I could use. Not anymore.

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ornornor 931 days ago
Mayan is also doing a good job but I think geared more towards businesses/enterprises and at least for the older versions long term support is an issue. It’s also just one guy, or at least it was when I last checked.

For home I’d go with paperless-ngx no contest, especially if you can run it in a docker container.

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jeauxlb 931 days ago
Does paperless have the same support for workflows and indexes as Mayan? I use these two features heavily to automatically place documents into a hierarchy (eg payslips into their financial year). That and the ability to add arbitrary fields like 'parent', which then means I can created a linked list style association between documents, for example a series of correspondence. It's been a while since I looked at paperless and its forks, but I understand it's not quite built to have such extensibility/flexibility?
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ornornor 931 days ago
I never used these things in Mayan but paperless has the possibility to specify a correspondant, tags, document type, date. It has pre and post consumption hooks too for you to write custom scripts that are called then and do things. There is also a setting to organize your files in sub folders based on your criteria.

It will also eventually automatically recognize the document type and tags by learning from previous documents.

The docs have a section covering this and it explains it much better than I can, have a look to see if it would fit your needs?

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