Paperless Ingest

Paperless Ingest scans paper documents with your iPhone and uploads them to your own Paperless-ngx server. Review suggested metadata before sending each PDF.

SCAN AND REVIEW
Use the built-in document scanner for automatic edge detection, perspective correction, and multi-page scanning. Review the scanned pages and edit the document title, correspondent, document type, tags, and date before uploading.

ON-DEVICE TEXT RECOGNITION
Apple's Vision framework recognizes text on your device. Automatic language detection is enabled by default. Settings also lists the OCR languages supported by your device, so you can choose a language when a scan is misread. Chinese options include English for bilingual documents. Language availability depends on your device's OS and the recognition engine.

METADATA SUGGESTIONS
• Titles: extracts subject lines in Dutch, English, German, French, Spanish, and Traditional or Simplified Chinese, including full-width punctuation and subjects on the following line.
• Correspondents: matches recognized text to your existing Paperless correspondent names.
• Document types: recognizes common categories such as invoices, receipts, contracts, letters, bank statements, tax, medical, and insurance documents, then matches them to existing server types. Custom type names can also match in the text.
• Tags: suggests existing tags whose names appear in the recognized text or match the detected document type.
• Dates: extracts a document date for you to review.

Suggestions use on-device text matching and keywords. They do not run your server's trained classifier, matching rules, or workflows before upload. OCR can misread text, so every suggestion remains editable.

YOUR SERVER, YOUR DATA
Document analysis uses Apple's Vision and Natural Language frameworks on your device. No document content is sent to external AI services for analysis. The PDF and metadata you approve are sent to your Paperless-ngx server.

CONNECT YOUR PAPERLESS LIBRARY
Supports API token and username/password authentication. Loads existing correspondents, document types, and tags with pagination, and lets you create new entries while reviewing a scan. If one metadata list cannot load, the other available lists remain usable.

REQUIREMENTS
• iOS 17.0 or later
• A running Paperless-ngx server
• Camera access for scanning