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    From Errol Casey@1337:3/194.1337 to All on Sun Mar 1 11:07:57 2026
    Curious who is using paperless-ngx and what scanners or scanning software works best with it.

    Would like and easy workflow to scan bills and receipts.



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  • From Mindsurfer@1337:1/104 to Errol Casey on Sun Mar 1 20:45:51 2026
    Re: Paperless-ngx and scanners
    By: Errol Casey to All on Sun Mar 01 2026 11:07:57

    Curious who is using paperless-ngx and what scanners or scanning software works best with it.

    Would like and easy workflow to scan bills and receipts.

    i have paperlessngx on a seperate machine without any scanner etc attached. but i set it to pickup documents from a certain folder and have made this folder available in my LAN.

    so when i get an email with an invoice attached to it, i save to a local folder that is linked to that network folder. paperlessngx will automatically import it from there.
    The same when i have scanned something from paper, i save it to that paperlessngx folder and it will be imported automatically.

    similar for my mobile phone. i have added a folder that is linked to that network folder (using Material Files as a file manager in android). So using OSS-DocumentScanner on android and save it to that specific folder and paperlessngx will pick the file up and import it.

    So in this case the scanner or scan software is the one you like. You just save everything scanned or digitally recceived pdf to the import folder.

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@1337:3/178 to Mindsurfer on Thu Mar 5 07:26:22 2026
    Mindsurfer wrote to Errol Casey <=-

    i have paperlessngx on a seperate machine without any scanner etc attached. but i set it to pickup documents from a certain folder and
    have made this folder available in my LAN.

    That's good to know - I use my Canon MFP over the LAN. didn't know if
    paperlessngx could talk to it, but I could use a dropfolder on the LAN
    like you described.

    So in this case the scanner or scan software is the one you like. You
    just save everything scanned or digitally recceived pdf to the import folder.

    And paperlessngx has a LXC helper script for Proxmox - will definitely
    try this out!



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  • From Mindsurfer@1337:1/104 to poindexter FORTRAN on Fri Mar 6 20:46:09 2026
    Re: Re: Paperless-ngx and scanners
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Mindsurfer on Thu Mar 05 2026 07:26:22

    And paperlessngx has a LXC helper script for Proxmox - will definitely try this out!

    helper scripts are a blessing! A real time saver! for some software you can now choose between ubuntu and Alpine Linux now. Alpine is great to save even more on resources.

    ANd helper script are also great to just install something for a quick test and after that delete the lxc again.

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