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Papra

Organize, secure, and archive your files effortlessly with this open-source document management platform.

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Overview

Papra is an open-source document management platform designed to bring order to digital chaos. It offers a centralized solution for organizing, securing, and archiving all types of files, eliminating the need to juggle documents across various platforms. Key organizational features include 'Organizations' for grouping documents by team or company, and 'Document Tagging' with the ability to define automated tagging rules, making categorization and filtering seamless.

The platform is built with a strong emphasis on ethical principles, including full transparency through its open-source nature (AGPL-3.0 license), a commitment to user privacy by never selling data, and an independent, bootstrapped development model. Papra is also highly developer-friendly, providing a robust API, webhooks, CLI, and SDK for deep integration into existing workflows. Users can also benefit from email ingestion, which automatically saves email attachments as documents, further streamlining the archiving process. Its self-hostable nature via Docker gives users complete control over their data and infrastructure.

Best For

Centralizing company documents for small to medium-sized businesses
Archiving important personal or professional files in an organized manner
Teams needing a secure and private document management solution
Developers looking to integrate document storage into their applications
Organizations requiring full control over their data through self-hosting
Managing project-related documents and assets for collaborative teams

Key Features

Centralized document storage and archiving
Organizations for team/company-based document management
Document tagging with automated tagging rules
Powerful search functionality for quick retrieval
Developer-friendly API, webhooks, CLI, and SDK
Email ingestion to save attachments as documents
Self-hostable via Docker
Open-source under AGPL-3.0 license

Pricing

Free

$0/month
  • 512MB storage (~4,000 standard PDF)
  • 3 members per organization
  • Max upload size: 25MB
  • 1 intake email address
  • Basic support
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Plus

$4.5 /month (monthly, with 50% off launch special) or $3.75
  • 5GB storage (~20,000 standard PDF)
  • 10 members per organization
  • Max upload size: 100MB
  • 10 intake email addresses
  • Priority support

Pros & Cons

Pros

  • Fully open-source, allowing for transparency, auditing, and self-hosting
  • Strong focus on user privacy with a 'no data selling' policy
  • Developer-friendly with extensive integration options (API, webhooks, CLI, SDK)
  • Ethical by design, avoiding dark patterns and manipulative tactics
  • Bootstrapped and independent, answering to users rather than investors
  • Efficient document organization through tags, organizations, and powerful search
  • Email ingestion simplifies saving attachments directly to the platform

Cons

  • May require technical expertise for self-hosting and advanced integrations
  • As a newer open-source project, the community and feature set might be less mature than established proprietary solutions
  • Reliance on self-hosting means users are responsible for their own infrastructure and maintenance
  • Specific advanced features like OCR or version control are not explicitly highlighted, which might be a limitation for some users
  • The web interface might lack the polish or advanced features of enterprise-grade proprietary DMS solutions

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