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Papra — a minimal self-hosted archive for storing and retrieving documents

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Stars
5,477
Primary language
TypeScript
License
AGPL-3.0
Repository last updated
Sep 20, 2026

Overview

Papra is a self-hosted document management and archiving platform for long-term storage and retrieval of receipts, warranties, contracts, and similar documents, with full-text search, tags, automated ingestion, content extraction, sharing, and APIs.

Features and best fit

Based on official documentation; not hands-on tested · Content checked:

Retrieve long-term archived documents with full-text search and tags

Documents can be stored centrally and later found through full-text search, advanced filters, tags, and organization-level grouping.

Sources: [2][3]

Automate ingestion from email and folders and extract searchable content

Papra can ingest forwarded email or watched folders and extract text from images or scanned documents for search.

Sources: [2][3]

For homes and small organizations that want a straightforward digital archive

It fits cases centered on storing, organizing, finding, and sharing documents rather than a complex enterprise document workflow.

Sources: [2]

Configure public sharing and authentication secrets carefully

External shares can use expiration and passwords. Real self-hosted instances should use a strong generated AUTH_SECRET rather than the README's test value.

Sources: [2][3]

Official sources

  1. [1]papra-hq/papra repository(2026-09-20)
  2. [2]Papra README(2026-09-20)
  3. [3]Papra documentation(2026-09-20)
  4. [4]Papra AGPL-3.0 license(2026-09-20)
Supplemental curator note

Papra favors a simpler document-archive experience while still providing email ingestion, content extraction, tagging rules, CLI/API access, and sharing. Replace the README's dummy `AUTH_SECRET` with a strong secret for any real deployment.

Try it in 3 steps

  1. 1

    Get the source

    git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/papra-hq/papra.git
  2. 2

    Enter the repository

    cd papra
  3. 3

    Check the official steps

    Continue with the commands in the README Installation, Quick Start, or Getting Started section.

    find . -maxdepth 1 -iname 'README*' -exec sed -n '1,220p' {} \; -quit
Check the official README

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Commits (last 30 days)
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Open PRs
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GitHub Topics

  • app
  • archive
  • document
  • documents
  • self-hosted
Stars
5,477
Forks
301
Watchers
17
Open issues
148
Contributors
42
Primary language
TypeScript
License
AGPL-3.0
Repository last updated
Sep 20, 2026
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