cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/40125235
Picked up an ix500 scansnap and wondering about suggested workflows for going paperless. My intention is to scan a bunch of documents, but haven’t delved deeply into how this will actually flow on the software level. I know I’ll need to OCR the scanned documents, and my base setup is:
- Pi with SSD storage running compose version of Paperless-ngx to filesystem mounted folders.
- Folders can also be accessed over Samba
- ix500 statically assigned over wifi as network scanner.
- A literal filing cabinet, for things I should keep physically.
- Ubuntu computer for browsing
I feel a bit overwhelmed, but am excited to get started. Will be scanning personal document, work docs, whatever else I need to digitize and recycle. All suggestions appreciated!
I am relatively new to the whole paperless thing but I have a couple of email addresses that it watches, one that saves the email as the document and one that saves the attachments. My pi 5 has no problem scanning documents that I can then send to one of my paperless emails. I can also forward emails I want saved to the other paperless email. I am still going into the web ui to make sure things are tagged right, but paperless is awesome it does OCR and it fixes files that were scanned at a bit of an angle.
I am trying to work through a system that prints documents according to events on my calendar, with HA.