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My personal setup:
I have been playing with some other tools, but these are the most important for me.
(with scan to SMB)
So the scanner saves the file in SMB-share(s), then Paperless(-xng) will automatically process it?
Maybe Paperless, with an LLM API integration to chat with the documents, using the power of referring to and verifying against Paperless' concrete results, would be somehow useful.
Edit: Oh, this is already being discussed on their GitHub. Of course it is!
You are right with the first part. It only takes three clicks to scan a doc and have it available.
As for me, I'm not interest in sending my documents to open AI. But it would definitely offer some nice functions.
I'm not interest in sending my documents to open AI.
You wouldn't have to. There are plenty of well-performing open-source models that work with an API similar to the Open AI standard, with which you can simply substitute OpenAI models by using a different URL and API-key.
You can run these models in the cloud, either selfhosted or "as a service".
Or you can run them locally on high-end consumer-grade hardware, some even on smartphones, and the models are only getting smaller and more performant with very frequent advancements regarding training, tuning and prompting. Some of these open-source models are already claiming to be outperforming GPT-4 in some regards, so this solution seems viable too.
Hell, you can even build and automate your own specialized agents in collaborating "crews" using frameworks, and so much more...
Though, I'm unsure if the LLM functionality should be integrated into Paperless, or rather implemented by calling the Paperless API from the LLM agent. I see how both ways could fit some specific uses.
Some features like a "tl,dr" bot would probably not even need high end hardware, because it does not matter if it takes ten minutes for a summary.
Features like a chat bot do not belong into paperless IMO.
Vaultwarden Jellyfin Sonarr Radarr Jacket
My current list is: AdGuardHome, Bazaar, Change Detection, CloudTube, Excaldraw, Filesbrowser, Ghost, Golink (Tailscale), IT Tools, Libreddit, Lidarr, Memos, mStream, Nginx Proxy Manager, OliveTin, OpenBooks, Overseerr, PairDrop, Pigallery, Pingvin Share, Plex, Prowlarr, qBittorrent, Radarr, Sonarr, Statping, Stirling PDF, Syncthing, Tautulli, Unmanic, Whoogle, WikiJS, YoutubeDL-Material
Vaultwarden AdGuardHome + Sync Jellyfin + FinAmp + Supersonic Linkding + Linkding Injector LLDAP Calibre-web + Kobo
For me it's gotta be Portainer, Vaultwarden, and Tailscale. Everything else (FreshRSS, Heimdall, Paperless) is just cream.
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