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💞 FairScan > Syncthing > Paperlees-ngx (feddit.org)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Teppichbrand@feddit.org to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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It's perfect! Do you guys already do this?

I open a letter, I take it's picture with FairScan. The FairScan-folder on my android device gets syncthinged to the ingest folder for Paperless-ngx on my "server". Paperless imports it, deletes the file and sets the new documents tag to inbox. I decide if the document goes to the binder for important stuff, or if I just toss it in a binder with all the paper I most likely will never touch again. Next time I look at Paperless, I edit all documents with the inbox tag and remove the tag.

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[-] zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 months ago

I luckily have a professional document scanner for this, which has wifi and is able to store the PDF on a cloud drive. Started using ASN numbers recently, so I put a sticker on the letter before scanning. The letter gets archived and is found quickly if needed because of the ASN.

Yesterday I wanted to introduce syncthing as my main backup solution. However, I am struggling with setting up the discovery server and want to fix that before installing it on all my devices.

[-] suzune@ani.social 2 points 4 months ago

I have the same setup.

My backup is done with Restic. It's simple and that's why it's genious.

[-] zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 months ago

Thanks for sharing! Will take a look at it

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