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Thanks for the demo and info, have a great day

Awesome video, love the fast nature of the video, I usually pause videos should I need more time.

@Techdox

7 ай бұрын

That’s what I figured as well, if I cut to the points then viewers can pause and rewind as needed :)

Great tutorial, worked directly out of the box following your instructions on OMV6 headless server, Thx a lot! (not too fast, English is not my 1st language and I used the pause option...)

@Techdox

7 ай бұрын

Glad to hear it!

Looks like an interesting container, will check it out. I've got a fairly decent Dropbox folder structure but this looks pretty cool with the built in OCR.

@Techdox

8 ай бұрын

Let me know how you find it if you do check it out

@ArawnFR

8 ай бұрын

Nextcloud now has OCR too but paperless seem pretty interesting as it seems pretty smooth and fluid compared to the horrible nextcloud ux

Up and running! Thanks.

@Techdox

7 ай бұрын

Great to hear! Enjoy it

perfect! thx a lot works right away..

I have a suggestion for showing ip addr outputs.. if you add "-br" is cleans it up a lot. so "ip -br a" or "ip -br addr" would make it easier to demo.

@Techdox

8 ай бұрын

That is a lot cleaner, thank you :)

@Breeegz

8 ай бұрын

@@Techdox it is what finally tipped the scales for me to switch off of ifconfig

@fvgoya

8 ай бұрын

very helpful!

@Lunolux

7 ай бұрын

thx

Thanks!

@11:07 - I wanted to see the directory after the creation process!!!

@14:50 - say you have a lot of documents to upload (doc, docx, excel, ppt, pptx, pdf, txt, png, jpg, pub, etc...) (about 5TB). - what's the fastest way to import them?

Thats very interesting akternative of zipping and syncing with onedrive or cloud or anything the paperless is way more easy and practical

I am on QNAP using container station and have been trying to figure this out now for days. Could get the basic linuxserver image working with access to the front end but all sort of errors after that. Do you have any advice for getting this going in container station?

I tested a lot of solutions but reverted to a single archive folder where files are stored with tags in the filename...easy and fast to search...has been working well for almost 20 years

@Techdox

8 ай бұрын

Hey, if it works it works! :)

Hi, I want to see the database. I tried port 5432, 3306. it does not show up. Any idea how to access it as i want to see the table structure

what to do if you need to upgrade all the components, db/broker/tika, etc...?

Tks for the video; one question: can u explain how to install another menu language like spanish instead of default english?

I hope you enjoyed this video 😀

@MartinHiggs84

8 ай бұрын

Nice video 😊 I would alter the data/media volumes to docker folder defaults to /usr/src/paperless

@Techdox

8 ай бұрын

@@MartinHiggs84 Yeah, I was debating if it would be worth changing them from volumes to binds in that folder

@MartinHiggs84

8 ай бұрын

@Techdox that makes sense - I was thinking just need one backup set for/docker then everything covered as expand

thx bro

Nice tutorial. Does it grab text from images/scanned documents? If not is there another program that can do this?

@Techdox

7 ай бұрын

Yeah. Should do that just fine :)

Thank you for the video. I wonder if there is something similar but for nextcloud. Because for me, nextcloud is already managing my library of documents, but it is still missing some functionality, and the presented tools seem useful. However, how do you import the existing bulk of existing files? Of how to keep it in sync with nextcloud? Thank you. I am sure some people might have the same question.

@Techdox

8 ай бұрын

In terms of keeping it in sync with Nextcloud, you could create like an Rsync between Nextcloud and Paperless and copy the files between the Nextcloud volume and the Paperless volume. I might explore this and see how you could do it. I’m not sure if Nextcloud had any extensions that can do this, worth a look though.

@ArawnFR

8 ай бұрын

there is OCR on nextcloud

@Techdox

8 ай бұрын

@@ArawnFR well that answers that :D

Can you edit or create new ones on it?

@7:02 - it says you need 3 files (d*.yml, d*.env, ".env"), why? @11:01 -

Hi am the "newbie" so at 16:57 i am stuck , naturally..i went through the video and want to setup on my Mac..to test --the demo site failed to load unless i need to load a Office document to test -- but back to the 16:57 -- do i need to have a Server Setup---- if installed Docker on my mac can i setup a server ?

@Techdox

7 ай бұрын

Yeah, you should be able to run this just fine locally if you have docker on your Mac

Thank you so much. Is there any way to put a lot of documents directly in one or the other directory. I've heard that putting documents in the "consume" directory would make them be treated by paperless, but in my configuration it doesn't work... any idea?

@Techdox

7 ай бұрын

Really good question I’ll have to look into it

@ewfzappadis

7 ай бұрын

Thank you

Interesting - Do you have a yaml manifest for paperless to deploy on kubernetes ?

@Techdox

7 ай бұрын

I don't but you could chuck the compose into ChatGPT to convert it haha

where are all the documents being stored / saved at? docker/paperless?

@Techdox

8 ай бұрын

The files are stored in a docker volume called media, the full path will be something like. /var/lib/docker/volumes/paperless_media/_data/documents You need root permission to access these volumes though

at 16:57 when executing the docker compose up -d, why do I get "command not found"

@Techdox

18 күн бұрын

@@ms7165 hey make sure you have docker compose installed, check out the docs - docs.docker.com/engine/install/ubuntu/#install-using-the-repository that go through the docker setup. You might have the older version which is docker-compose rather than docker compose

Hey!! I have installed the paperless-ngx on ubuntu server using docker, and now I wanted to mount the points between the docker container(paperless-ngx) & my TrueNAS server, as all the documents are organized in my TrueNAS Server. Is it possible to do ? Pls reply if possible 🙏🙏

@Techdox

6 ай бұрын

I’m assuming you have a network share on your NAS? You can setup docker network volumes, if your network share is already mounted on your host then you can point docker to that directory as if it was any other directory

Hi, it's a great guide which worked flawlessly until trying to create the super user. When I enter the command docker-compose run --rm webserver createsuperuser, I get: -bash: docker-compose: command not found. I can't work out what's causing it and how to resolve it. Can you help please?

@Techdox

8 ай бұрын

Are you on Ubuntu, try install docker-compose. 'sudo apt install docker-compose' also make sure you are still in the same directory as the compose file :)

@icojones

8 ай бұрын

@@Techdox you're a star! Thank you for such a quick response...it must be breakfast time there! ;-)

@Techdox

8 ай бұрын

It is indeed! Coffee time :)

Now that this works, can you access it outside your local network trough a Cloudflare tunnel?

@Techdox

6 ай бұрын

You sure can

docker compose up -d or docker-compose up -d?

did you ever see SMEs using this?

Quick warning (LMK if this was because something that I did wrong..) if this is your first time installing it, the CMD prints will be having seizures. Not to worry tho, if you look closely, it is just trying to download all the dependent files.

was it just me or did you miss defining some persistent volumes in the YAML to store the imported docs? If that's the case that would mean all the imports would live in the container and when you update the images all the imports would be deleted!

@Techdox

7 ай бұрын

It's using volumes, so the data is stored amoung 4 volumes which you can see at the bottom of the compose. data, media, pgdata and redisdata

11:00 docker compose up -d no configuration file provided: not found

@Techdox

7 ай бұрын

Make sure to run the command where your compose file is

Any ideas on auto-tagging, categorization and document clustering powered by AI?

@Techdox

7 ай бұрын

I myself am curious on how that works. They mentioned it was a thing, so I’m keen to understand how it works

This might b a nice addition to my home server running on an HP DL60 9!

Which terminal do you use?

@Techdox

8 ай бұрын

iterm2 using a Dracula theme with the fig plugin :)

Hey very use full any Idea of how to use the Rest API to have it as a document repository for an app or multiple apps? A link or video will be helpfull.

@Techdox

8 ай бұрын

That’s a great idea, thanks for the suggestion. Their APIs look very straight forward

AI treatment of documents would be great to autopick the categories and fill out the date and so on

@Techdox

8 ай бұрын

That would be awesome, upload it and it just manages it all for you. Surely it could be implemented without too much hassle if you leveraged an exisiting AI like GPT

@Belgabor

8 ай бұрын

It says on the front page "Uses machine-learning to automatically add tags, correspondents and document types to your documents.", so it looks as if it's already there

@YeahNoTellTheTruth

8 ай бұрын

Not everything needs to be coined AI, in this case it's just a matter of auto filling titles and dates, whether that's dates in files or document created dates, or file names. Artificial intelligence is not that.

Can you import a current document archive or is it single document at a time? Might be painful for some who have a folder structure already in place. Or can you keep a folder structure and still use this? I mean I tend to have other files like images in the folders which is relevant to the document and separating them means you're making your actions longer to find relevant documents.

@Techdox

8 ай бұрын

I would say you could point paperless to your current location of files and it should import them all

I'm struggling to get Paperless-NGX to run, in the logs it says: "FATAL: password authentication failed for user "paperless"" - If you can, please give me some advice.

@Techdox

8 ай бұрын

Did you create the user after deploying Paperless? :)

@DariusOosthuizenSuper

8 ай бұрын

@@Techdox I pulled the images with Compose and then tried to create the superuser with the command in the Docker-Compose file, but before it runs it gives me this error. So , the error comes on before I need to create the superuser... Thanks for replying...

@DariusOosthuizenSuper

8 ай бұрын

@@Techdox It seems to be working now after I changed the permissions for the db volume. But thanks for your help!

@Techdox

8 ай бұрын

@@DariusOosthuizenSuper great to hear!

This seems more convoluted than using the ocr scanning functions of google drive. Why not just use that?

@Techdox

8 ай бұрын

Well you could but that defeats the entire point of the video haha. This is as an alternative to something like Google Drive where you are in control and selfhosting

What about persistance? If the container dies, your database dies too, doesn't it?

@Techdox

7 ай бұрын

Two containers, but even if they do die all the data is stored on volumes that live on the host machine

What is the benefit of this software compared to Evernote?

@Techdox

8 ай бұрын

They are pretty different right? Evernote is a hosted service you use and has paid features and is a note taking app. Paperless is a document management service with OCR that you selfhost

@James7104

8 ай бұрын

@@Techdox I understand but even the free Evernote version has similarities. All documents uploaded are searchable, even text in images. That is why I like it so much. This solution seems more complicated 🤔

@Techdox

8 ай бұрын

@@James7104 the big difference here is looking at self hosted alternatives, rather than trusting other companies with data. For instance I wouldn’t be comfortable hosting medical data here to store long term compared to a self hosted solution that I control. It’s like a lot of what I cover in this channel, Nextcloud could be Google or Dropbox etc it’s all about alternatives :)

@James7104

8 ай бұрын

Thanks for pointing that out. @@Techdox

Or I just use macOS spotlight which also indexes content.

@Techdox

8 ай бұрын

For sure, it’s nice to have dedicated services for this though so you can access it and get the benefits from any device :)

Mac OS does this already. Just scan give it time to index and you’re done.

@Techdox

7 ай бұрын

Yeah, like I have mentioned to others. This is focusing on a self hosted service that can be used regardless of device you use. More of a central repository for your documentation then on an individuals device

@VisionaryAudioandVideo

7 ай бұрын

My bad, I have a file system that suits me and I didn’t listen to what you were saying.

Docker being a paid service, the software is not free. Is there any other method?

@Techdox

7 ай бұрын

Docker is most definitely still free, the business editions are not though but you don’t need that

It is a g❤reat video for those without knowledge about installing paperless in docker on a Nas. But the video has a big but. Someone without knowledge can absolutely not follow it. Within one minute someone is lost. Because many times you talk so fast and not really clear. Please delete this video and create a new one. We really need a version for Dummies. I have watched this video 6 times now and to no use at all. I know this is also me because i have no knowledge at all. But many times i replayed certain parts trying to understand what you are saying. But with the best intentions i can not. And i so wish that i could learn to do all of this. If someone knows another good educational video for dummies you would make me very happy. Or something on the Web ?

@Techdox

5 ай бұрын

Yeah, I’m definitely not deleting my best performing video with over a 100k views haha. I can understand if you are getting stuck because the concept of docker and docker compose maybe new to you. Check out this video I made around getting started with Selfhosting kzread.info/dash/bejne/gZp7z8iTndO8o84.htmlsi=Vnte0b_Qof4No4Yj

@keesverhagen9227

5 ай бұрын

@@Techdox So many times i have watched it. 😇 I will watch the one from your links. Thanks.

@Techdox

5 ай бұрын

Where are you getting stuck?

@8:20 🤮

@Techdox

8 ай бұрын

The environment file is really only being used for a small amount of variables unless we were making it public, you could remove it if you wanted and bring timezone etc over

@user-fv9ie3yz2e

8 ай бұрын

In general, the amount of syntax in those files is disgusting....there should be some abstraction made, there is no way that in future by adding more complexity into the these types of files would be able to manage, it will be just added on top and new frameworks and it will be big mess@@Techdox

@Techdox

8 ай бұрын

@@user-fv9ie3yz2e If you think this is bad, you should see Kubernetes manifest files haha. It may not seem like it be there is some structure and logic to this :D

Your like my brother and other techies. You know your stuff but don’t speak in human terms. So this is running in tor Nas / Docker dang

@Techdox

8 ай бұрын

No Tor or NAS haha, just docker. The thing is if docker itself is new to you that’s why I link the get started video. Explaining the basics in every video would make them an hour each

@AndrewTa530

4 ай бұрын

Docker or K8’s?

Dude, slow down, annunciate and speak clearly. You have good info to share, that’s why I’m watching it, but the staccato delivered makes my head go dizzy. 🤪

@Techdox

8 ай бұрын

Haha! I hear you, I’ll make sure to keep this in mind for future video, the kiwi accent won’t help either 😂

@smplchmp

7 ай бұрын

no issues here, sounds normal to me

@hallowatcher

7 ай бұрын

Normal here as well, great content man!

@kalebburris6425

7 ай бұрын

Yeah no problem. Man's got an accent not poor communication.

@followthemoonrabbit

7 ай бұрын

Could follow you at 1.25x with no problem. And English is my second language. It's just kiwi :-) Please don't get discouraged, you're helping regional dialect awareness :-)

i´ve just tried to install with portainer. i put the code from "docker-compose.postgres-tika.yml" in a stack and adjust only my port and a few volumes. I get an error. after that i put the code 1:1 in a stack and deploy. also there i got an error . what i am doing wrong ?

@Techdox

7 ай бұрын

Hey, what’s the error?

@andreaswiehl8482

7 ай бұрын

@@Techdox this error message showed up " Deployment Error => failed to deploy stack: open /data/compose/16/docker-compose.env: no such file or directory"

@quadcom

7 ай бұрын

did you import the env file inside the portainer UI at the bottom of the page?

@andreaswiehl8482

7 ай бұрын

No I don't because I thougt there is everything commented out and the gid and uid are not neccesarry. You mean put the Code from both direct in the table of portainer stack and then deploy? I will test this and Feedback here. Thank you both for your Support!

@andreaswiehl8482

7 ай бұрын

Now i`ve got PL running, i`ve just took the "docker-compose.portainer.yml" from github, that was a lot easier for me ;). but now i have the next issue i have to dela with ... the loggin steup with the CLI. I ve running docker on a omv media server in portainer, i have nothing to do yet in CLI`s. I can acces via putty on my WIN pc and login in my user on my server but thats it. I have noch clue how to get to the path in the video "~docker/paperless" to set the needed command line to create user

docker compose up -d or docker-compose up -d?

@Techdox

7 ай бұрын

They are the same, but docker compose is the new one and I would suggest using that one

@stan8926

7 ай бұрын

@@Techdox It did not work for me so I had to use docker-compose.