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.
Mindsurfer
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