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Paperless-ngx

Scan, OCR, and archive all your documents

provisional — pending verificationGPL-3.0self-hostable

Arete score

4.5 / 5

Autonomy5

Return5

Efficiency3

Transparency5

ἀρετή “AH-reh-tay” — excellence: a thing being good at what it’s for. Mean of the four principle scores. How we score →

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~ Provisional — seeded estimate by a human researcher; full rubric pass pending.

Why it's listed

Paperless-ngx is listed in documents, pdf & office because it competes on utility: scan, ocr, and archive all your documents. It's community-maintained open source: the incentive is the tool itself. Licensed GPL-3.0; pricing: free. Its resource footprint is reasonable for what it does, though not featherweight. This entry is provisional — the scores are seeded estimates pending our full manual rubric pass, and the verification date will appear here once complete.

Facts

License: GPL-3.0
Pricing: Free
Funding model: Community OSS
Self-hostable: Yes — deploy difficulty: medium
Replaces: filing cabinets
Verification: Provisional — scores are seeded estimates pending manual verification

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