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 still like my offline documents to be organized into different binders. Is there a way to have separate binder-specific ASNs?
Edit: Turns out there’s no built-in way to do that. https://github.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx/discussions/1841
I guess ASNs are not for me.
I have achieved this by having several number rows for different binders. E.g… :
Downside is, paperless treats it as a single ASN number row and reports the highest used.
This is OK as long as you consistently use the QR codes to assign ASNs.