# Paperless-ngx Document OCR and Archive Management System

> Paperless-ngx is an open source document management system that turns scanned or uploaded paperwork into a searchable archive. It combines OCR-driven ingestion, indexing, tagging, storage, and retrieval for teams that need structured access to documents.

- Skill: `agentskillexchange/paperless-ngx-document-ocr-and-archive-management-system` (Agent Skill)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add agentskillexchange/paperless-ngx-document-ocr-and-archive-management-system`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/agentskillexchange/paperless-ngx-document-ocr-and-archive-management-system/raw
- Safety review: pending (external: skill-scanner PASS, skillspector PASS)
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Coding & Dev Tools
- Author: agentskillexchange (https://skillmd.com/u/agentskillexchange)
- Updated: 2026-09-08
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/agentskillexchange/paperless-ngx-document-ocr-and-archive-management-system

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# Paperless-ngx Document OCR and Archive Management System

Paperless-ngx is an open source document management system that turns scanned or uploaded paperwork into a searchable archive. It combines OCR-driven ingestion, indexing, tagging, storage, and retrieval for teams that need structured access to documents.

## Installation

Requirements and caveats from upstream:
- The easiest way to deploy paperless is docker compose. The files in the [/docker/compose directory](https://github.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx/tree/main/docker/compose) are configured to pull the image from the Gi...
- If you'd like to jump right in, you can configure a docker compose environment with our install script:
- Migrating from Paperless-ng is easy, just drop in the new docker image! See the [documentation on migrating](https://docs.paperless-ngx.com/setup/#migrating-to-paperless-ngx) for more details.

Basic usage or getting-started notes:
- [Getting started](#getting-started)
- bash
- bash -c "$(curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx/main/install-paperless-ngx.sh)"

- Source: https://github.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx
- Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx/HEAD/README.md

## Documentation

- http://docs.paperless-ngx.com/

## Source

- [Agent Skill Exchange](https://agentskillexchange.com/skills/paperless-ngx-document-ocr-archive-management-system/)