Actually, it is safe to say that Papermerge was entirely rewritten – that’s why this release took 18 months to reach beta! In any case, here is in nutshell what’s new: What’s New frontend is separate application frontend features desktop like look and feel frontend features dual panel mode frontend features realtime document OCR status updates application is fully RESTul REST API documentation (so called openapi schema) is generated from code backend is kubernetes ready (i.e. can be configured via environment variables) – basically application is now cloud native download searchable PDFs use ..read more

Some people say never “rewrite the code from scratch” because it is the “single worst strategic mistake that any software company can make”. Other people say “never say never”. Maybe sometimes it makes sense to rewrite at least partially the code base? Maybe not? I will discuss at length this interesting idea in a later blog post, but for now, in this very short article I just want to confess. Yes, my dear reader, it did that – I rewrote Papermerge 2.0 almost entirely. To be exact, I rewrote around 80% of the code base. To say it straight – all development of from Papermerge 2.0.1 on, whi ..read more

In this article I will show you how you can quickly start latest development version of Papermerge using Portainer. Please keep in mind that latest development version of Papermerge is still an early alpha – which means that it is feature incomplete and very buggy – it is definitely not ready for production. Even though it is in alpha stage, you can already clearly see the direction towards which is it moving – like utilitarian part of dual panel mode, download document with OCR text layer and so on. Step 1 – Update /etc/hosts File First of all make sure you add papermerge.local entry to your ..read more

There were some issue with kubernetes deployment which were fixed. http://www.papermerge.com is back online. Demo instance is still offline – will be fixed asap ..read more

Currently there are some issues with k8s deployment and part of services will be down until the issue is solved ..read more

I have a couple of words to say about Papermerge’s development progress – is painfully slow. It is so not because lack of commitment of work – it is so because of the nature of “progress”. Progress is done in small, incremental steps with a lot of experimenting, trials and errors between each step ..read more

In this article I will discuss the way Papermerge project repositories are organized and ideas driving those organizational structures. I need to give appropriate credit to my ignorance – when I started Papermerge project I did not know about GitHub’s Organizations i.e. that you can group related code repositories under one single umbrella or Organization as how GitHub labels this concept. Even if I knew it, what use it would be ? Because all the application was – a pretty simple Django project. Everything just fit perfectly under one repository – https://github.com/ciur/papermerge Basically a ..read more

I experimented with many different blogging software. I think I’ve tried the whole spectrum from the static generated pages like Jekyll, Hugo, I played for a while with Wegtail and couple of other similar solutions. After a while obviously I landed on self hosted WordPress. And because apparently self hosted wordpress did not inflict enough pain, I ventured to build my own, custom WordPress theme! Long story short – I finally decided for the most obvious choice – hosted WordPress. Basically I created an account with WordPress.com today, bought premium tier, imported my self hosted instance dat ..read more

In these mini series of blog posts I want to focus on Papermerge features currently being developed. I will describe in detail the motivation behind those additions, the development status and the roadmap. Features I am speaking about are following: Real Time (subject of current post) Dual Panel Performance Improvements / Refactoring OCRmyPDF integration Each of above mentioned feature will be detailed in a separate blog post. In this article I will write about the most exiting feature – Papermerge is real time document management system ! What is Real Time App? A real time web application ..read more