It’s perfect! Do you guys already do this?
I open a letter, I take it’s picture with FairScan. The FairScan-folder on my android device gets syncthinged to the ingest folder for Paperless-ngx on my “server”. Paperless imports it, deletes the file and sets the new documents tag to inbox. I decide if the document goes to the binder for important stuff, or if I just toss it in a binder with all the paper I most likely will never touch again. Next time I look at Paperless, I edit all documents with the inbox tag and remove the tag.
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There are companion apps for paperless (like Paperparrot for iOS) that simplify that process even more.
No need for syncthing.
Paperparrot is flawless. The dev is also very responsive and helpful.
They also offer a similarly flawless app called Plappa as frontend for your audiobookserver.
Running both, super happy.
This is the transhumanism I like.
Jokes aside, how did you deal with your papers from the past? I do this with all new incoming mail, but I can’t for the life of me find the time to scan the pile of taxes, bills, medical reports, etc. that has accumulated over 3 thousand years of family life.
I took my Very Important Documents!!-folder to a neighbour with a decent scanner. It’s not that much, we scanned for an hour or two. Older, less important stuff stays in binders I most likely will never touch. If I do have to look at something from there, I snap a quick FairScan before I put it back. So it’s not about perfection, I just try to make my live easier from now on. :)
Why don’t you use the mobile app? Mine works just fine
At least I think it does. Maybe all the docs that I upload are lost. Who knows 😅
Haha, thanks. I didn’t know this existed! I already use Syncthing, so that’s no problem. And I like that FairScan rotates my picture and adjusts it’s angle. If the Paperless Uploader-app does this as well, I might use it. Taking a look right now!
Does it detect the four corners and adjusts the angle to make it flat 2D?
Exactly what I came here to say, paperless app already have a scanner no need to fiddle with file sync and stuff 😊
I have configured an email address in paperless_ngx and send everything there. The appendix is then tagged as unsorted.
Sounds like a great workflow!
Unfortunately, I just can’t get syncthing to run in the background of my phone without chewing up the battery.
You can get it to run at time intervals. E.g. once an hour for 5 minutes. That’s not bad on battery for me. I actually have mine once every 24 hours for 30 minutes so it can successfully transfer a few gigs of Signal backups.
I will look into this, thank you!
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Welp I guess there’s another piece of software I have to setup now… 😄
Isn’t syncthing for mobile discontinued?
Purely awesome app if you scan a straight paper that are not cut in any way. I miss the ability to manually crop the images. Will still use the app, though.
Thanks for recommending it 🙂 Have always used a flatbed scanner for my papers (receipts, bills, etc.), but now I can scan on the go 😊
This is awesome! Thank you for sharing this flow! 😍
I use an hardware scanner which then puts the pdf via ftp on the inbox folder of paperless. So i can also all old stuff
Mmm. I use paperless mobile but I will try FairScan. Thank you.
That’s a very cool idea, seems great for receipts and quick stuff.
The best thing about this is that it enables you to stop organizing all this paper. I have a little box next to my scanner and everything that is scanned is just getting put on top of the pile. In most cases you never need the original document anyways. But if you need it, you can check Paperless when it was scanned and you will find that document from Feb 2023 in a few seconds.
I use a different app (though I’ll be checking out FairScan), but that’s pretty much exactly my workflow for things that aren’t convenient to do basically the same thing on my desktop PC & scanner.