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This product has charges associated with it for seller support. Paperless-ngx, the open source document management system that scans, OCRs, indexes and archives your documents, preinstalled with PostgreSQL, Redis, tesseract OCR and nginx. Per-instance admin and database credentials are generated on first boot. Backed by 24/7 cloudimg support.
Overview
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Paperless-ngx sign-in
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Paperless-ngx dashboard
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Document with OCR text
This is a repackaged open source software product wherein additional charges apply for cloudimg support services.
Overview Paperless-ngx is the popular open source document management system - a self-hosted, searchable digital archive for your paperless office. Drop a scan or PDF into the consume directory and Paperless OCRs it, extracts the text, tags and indexes it, then archives a searchable original. This image delivers Paperless-ngx fully installed and configured, so a complete document management platform is running within minutes of launch. The current release available is Paperless-ngx 2.20.
Application Stack Paperless-ngx runs bare-metal from the official release: the granian webserver serves the bundled Angular frontend, a Celery worker and scheduler run the background task pipeline, and a consumer watches the input folder. PostgreSQL provides the database and Redis the task broker. The OCR pipeline is built on tesseract, Ghostscript and OCRmyPDF. nginx terminates HTTP on port 80 and reverse-proxies the application.
Secure By Default On the first boot of your instance a one-shot service generates a fresh PostgreSQL password, a fresh Django secret key and a fresh Paperless administrator password, unique to that instance, and writes them to a root only file. The instance's own address is added to the trusted hosts automatically. No shared or default credentials and no documents ship in the image.
Ready To Use The application, web server, database, cache and OCR pipeline are all configured, with the document archive and database on dedicated, independently resizable storage volumes. Browse to the instance address, sign in as the administrator, and start scanning, tagging and searching your documents.
cloudimg Support 24/7 technical support by email and chat. Help with Paperless-ngx deployment, upgrades, OCR language configuration, consume-folder automation, object storage, TLS termination and database administration.
Use Cases A private, searchable document archive in your own VPC for teams with data residency or compliance requirements. Self-hosted paperless office for invoices, contracts and correspondence. A compliant alternative to commercial cloud document management.
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Highlights
- Paperless-ngx, the open source document management system that OCRs, indexes and archives your scans and PDFs, preinstalled with PostgreSQL, Redis, tesseract OCR and nginx, ready to use with no manual setup
- Secure by default: a fresh Paperless administrator password, Django secret key and PostgreSQL password generated for every instance on first boot and stored in a root only file, with no documents or shared credentials in the image
- 24/7 technical support from cloudimg for deployment, upgrades, OCR configuration, consume-folder automation and TLS termination
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Ubuntu 24.04
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Dimension | Description | Cost/hour |
|---|---|---|
m5.large Recommended | m5.large | $0.08 |
t3.micro | t3.micro instance type | $0.04 |
t2.micro | t2.micro instance type | $0.04 |
r5a.large | r5a.large instance type | $0.08 |
i7ie.48xlarge | i7ie.48xlarge instance type | $0.24 |
c8in.metal-96xl | c8in.metal-96xl instance type | $0.24 |
m7i-flex.12xlarge | m7i-flex.12xlarge instance type | $0.24 |
c5d.metal | c5d.metal instance type | $0.24 |
m5n.xlarge | m5n.xlarge instance type | $0.12 |
m7i.metal-24xl | m7i.metal-24xl instance type | $0.24 |
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64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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Version release notes
Initial release of Paperless-ngx 2.20 document management system.
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Usage instructions
Connect via SSH on port 22 as the default login user for your operating system variant (the user guide lists it per variant; on Ubuntu it is 'ubuntu'). Paperless-ngx is served on port 80. Retrieve the generated administrator password with: sudo cat /root/paperless-ngx-credentials.txt. Browse to http://<instance-public-ip>/ and sign in as the 'admin' user (the instance's address is added to the trusted hosts on first boot). The sign-in page http://<instance-public-ip>/accounts/login/ is open; the REST API at /api/ requires authentication. Services are managed with systemctl (postgresql, redis-server, nginx, paperless-webserver, paperless-task-queue, paperless-scheduler, paperless-consumer); admin tasks use 'sudo -u paperless /opt/paperless/.venv/bin/python /opt/paperless/src/manage.py ...'. Drop documents into /opt/paperless/consume to import them. To enable HTTPS, follow the Let's Encrypt section of the user guide.
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cloudimg provides 24/7 technical support for this product by email and live chat. Our engineers help with deployment, configuration, updates, performance tuning and troubleshooting; critical issues receive a one hour average response. Contact support@cloudimg.co.uk .
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