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Pocket Documents

v0.6.1 · Self-hosted · MIT

Every letter and receipt, found in seconds.

Pocket Documents turns scans, PDFs and phone photos into searchable PDF/A files, keeps the untouched original beside each one, and learns how you file. Tags, correspondents, types and custom fields are suggested for you, and the Paperless-ngx API means the mobile apps you already use keep working.

Get it on GitHubHow to run it
  • Included in Pocket Box
  • Sign in with Pocket Core
  • Works with OCRmyPDF and Tesseract and Paperless-ngx apps and Nextcloud
Pocket Documents on an iPhone: a list of electricity bills, a phone bill and a bank statement with thumbnails and tagsPocket Documents on an iPhone: a list of electricity bills, a phone bill and a bank statement with thumbnails and tags

Dashboard

Your paperwork at a glance.

The inbox, what came in this week and your favourites sit at the top, with the latest scans as thumbnails. Charts show documents per month, by type and by correspondent.

The Pocket Documents dashboard: inbox and favourites counters, recently added scans, documents per month and per typeThe Pocket Documents dashboard: inbox and favourites counters, recently added scans, documents per month and per type

Search

Search that reads the paper.

Full-text search over the OCR text, titles, notes and labels, ranked by relevance, with the matching passage highlighted. Every filter shows how many documents it would leave.

  • One box for words, tags, dates and fields: ikea tag:receipts created:2024
  • Save a search as a view for the sidebar and the dashboard
  • Table, cards or list, with your own columns
A search for an invoice word: seven bills and statements with highlighted passages, and tag and correspondent filters with countsA search for an invoice word: seven bills and statements with highlighted passages, and tag and correspondent filters with counts

Filing

Filing that learns from you.

A photographed tax decision in Cyrillic is OCR’d, and the app suggests its sender, type, tag and dates from your matching rules and from how you filed the last ones. One tap applies them all.

  • Rules match words, phrases, regular expressions or fuzzy text
  • Pocket AI or your own OpenAI key can fill in title and fields
  • Serbian Latin and Cyrillic built in, and search finds both
A photographed Cyrillic tax decision next to its suggested date, correspondent, document type and tag, with an apply all linkA photographed Cyrillic tax decision next to its suggested date, correspondent, document type and tag, with an apply all link

On your phone

Everything about one document.

Open a car insurance policy on the phone and see its tags, sender, type, storage path and amount, with notes, history and earlier versions a tap away.

  • Custom fields for money, dates, choices and links to other documents
  • Archive serial numbers to find the paper copy again
  • An installable app that accepts photos shared from the phone
A car insurance policy on an iPhone: tags Car, Insurance and Paid, the insurer, type Policy, storage path Car and an amount of 412.00A car insurance policy on an iPhone: tags Car, Insurance and Paid, the insurer, type Policy, storage path Car and an amount of 412.00

And the rest of it

  • A folder you can browse

    Each person can keep a readable copy of every document in Pocket Files, Nextcloud, WebDAV or a server folder, laid out by storage path. Drop a scan in its Inbox and it becomes a document.

  • Paper tools with versions

    Rotate, delete or split pages, merge documents or replace a file. The old file stays as a version you can get back.

  • Rules, mail and reminders

    Rules run when a document arrives, changes or a date comes near. Mail accounts turn attachments into documents, and barcode sheets split batch scans.

  • Move in from Paperless-ngx

    Import from a running Paperless-ngx or an exporter zip, with tags, correspondents, fields and notes. Export everything of yours as one zip.

Install

One container, OCR included.

One container with OCRmyPDF, Tesseract, Ghostscript and Poppler inside. Documents are plain files in the data folder and everything else is one SQLite database, so backing up that folder backs up the lot. Add DEMO_DATA=true and AUTH_MODE=none to look around first.

On a Pocket Box it is already installed, with sign-in through Pocket Core.

Every setting in the README →

docker run -d --name pocket-documents -p 8080:8080 \
  -v ./data:/data -e TZ=Europe/Berlin -e OCR_LANGUAGE=eng+deu \
  ghcr.io/abjelosevic88/pocket-homelab-documents:latest
# open http://localhost:8080 and create your account

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