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Re: Show HN: Open Paperless – Scan, index, and archive paper documents

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Any good open source desktop software with linux support to do this? I don't see why I would personally want a web app for this.

I haven't tried this yet, but - https://openpaper.work/ Edit: tried it, it's crap.

May I ask why? Installation is a bit cumbersome but it seems to be an outstanding program to me. I have been looking very long for something like this.

I have not tired yet how it reacts to huge amounts of data. But best thing: NOT written in Java!

Re: Show HN: Open Paperless – Scan, index, and archive paper documents

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I haven't tried this yet, but - https://openpaper.work/ Edit: tried it, it's crap.

May I ask why? Installation is a bit cumbersome but it seems to be an outstanding program to me. I have been looking very long for something like this. I have not tired yet how it reacts to huge amounts of data. But best thing: NOT written in Java!

I installed it on Windows, so the installer was the best bit :)

Maybe it's better on linux but it didn't use system dialogues, the UI behaved a bit strangely and it wasn't particularly intuitive.

Maybe I'm just not the target - in a previous life I supported a HP TRIM ECM which may have left a mark on me.

Re: Show HN: Open Paperless – Scan, index, and archive paper documents

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I've been using iOS and Mac's native notes app to do that. In my opinion what these solutions lack is an integration between both note-taking (I sometimes like to write a few sentences relevant to a document, and I'd like to have it shown right next to it) while also letting you have the individual documents available in PDF or whatever if you need. Notes app does it perfectly now after iOS 11.1 and High Sierra. An e…

I used to use Notes but stopped after trying to back up my notes. For me, exporting one note at a time to pdf is not good enough, and finding the opaque binary file in ~/Library does not help because it is not a standard file format. I switched to using Notes in Fastmail.

I've been using http://writeapp.net/notesexporter/ for Mac's Notes app; happy with it so far.
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