As much as I adore paperless-ngx for its UX, I hate it for its tech-stack. Idling it already uses 300 MB RAM, when changing a few metadata fields on a document it easily spikes to 700 oder 800 MB. That’s insane for the work it actually does. Is there anything more lightweight? All I need is metadata management and a gallery with filters and previews.

  • daco@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I use docspell and I find it great. I run it on VM on an old microserver running proxmox.

    There is also Mayan edms based on Django, but it has to many features for my use case.

    • Lalaz4@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      So glad you mentioned Docspell! Just started getting into self-hosting and was looking into paperless-ngx though Docspell looks more geared toward what I want.

    • aksdb@feddit.deOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      It looks like docspell might even be heavier than paperless-ngx, given that I need to spin up at least 3 JVMs. Thanks for mentioning it anyway; don’t get me wrong. But my current quest is for a lightweight solution.

      Current contender might be SeedDMS, but it’s a more generic DMS, not so much focused as paperless-ngx. I miss the gallery view, for example.