Yann Büchau Jan 27
After a long session yesterday evening I finally managed to print custom QR code labels for #paperless onto sticker label A4 sheets. The QR code contains 'TAG:👛 Yann' and paperless can be configured to auto-detect that in scanned documents (such as receipts) and auto-attach a tag '👛 Yann' to know from whose purse that receipt was, which is very handy for #accounting (with #hledger) later, especially for cash purchases that you otherwise don't have any other trace of.
Show threadmusicmatze  Jan 27

@nobodyinperson
Wow that is cool.

How do you map paperless documents into your ledger?

Show threadYann Büchau Jan 27
@musicmatze Not yet, I've just started with paperless and I see a lot of potential there. I have a good pull-through duplex scanner now (Epson ES-580W) which makes scanning (even multiple) receipts a breeze, so that's what I'm doing now with all our receipts so I have them available everywhere when I do accounting later. Paperless learns some tagging after a while and does OCR (not that good on receipts though tbh), and manually-entered metadata is also available of course.
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@nobodyinperson
Ah, ok. Would love a blog article on your setup once it is in production.

I have about 2 million words in paperless 😜 ... Something about 1500 documents or so.

And a lot is missing metadata (except tags, I tag everything and add proper dates, but not more than that).

Jan 27 at 8:56amWeb
Show threadYann Büchau Jan 27

@musicmatze Yeah, I dumped our shared  #gitAnnex folder into it and it's a lot 😅 Also the ASN QR code thing¹ is amazing, put a QR code on the start of every related bunch of papers, then scan the whole stack at once → #paperless splits it automatically and sets the ASN metadata field.

Dokumente im Posteingang: 110
Dokumente insgesamt: 4805
Zeichen insgesamt: 45.402.448
Aktuelle ASN: 122

¹https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1Rjb5bIw-A

ASN-Labels in paperless-ngx: So gehts (inkl. Praxis-Demo)!

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Show threadYann Büchau Jan 27

@musicmatze What I am also interested in is how to bring the information from paperless back into my #gitAnnex. Paperless can't replace a shared folder where you put e.g. SVGs, spreadsheets or documents you edit, it's an archive for static content.

@Atemu regularly runs an export and uses that as a git annex special remote. But the configurable directory structure is rather limited. Maybe I'll import it to a subdirectory of our git annex repo+metadata would be amazing.

¹https://github.com/Atemu/nixos-config/blob/c770aad303e18b0360dcc6b79aecf2084daa4ec2/modules/paperless/module.nix#L83

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