Papra

Papra is a minimalistic, open-source document management and archiving platform built for individuals, families, and small teams who need a reliable home for their important files. With over 4,400 GitHub stars and active development, Papra offers a focused alternative to heavyweight DMS solutions — storing receipts, warranties, contracts, invoices, and scanned paperwork in a searchable, organized archive without unnecessary complexity.

Common Use Cases

Personal users rely on Papra to archive receipts and product warranties in a searchable format, eliminating the need to dig through email or file folders when a return window approaches. OCR extraction makes even scanned paper receipts fully searchable years after they are filed. Families share a single Papra organization to keep household documents — insurance policies, medical records, lease agreements, and tax returns — in one accessible place for everyone who needs them. Shared tagging rules ensure that documents are consistently organized regardless of who uploads them. Small businesses and freelancers use Papra to organize client contracts, invoices, and supplier documents, with automated tagging rules that classify incoming files by type or sender without manual intervention. The email ingestion feature lets team members forward relevant emails directly into the archive. Developers and power users integrate Papra via its REST API, CLI, and webhooks to build fully automated document ingestion pipelines connected to scanners, email clients, cloud storage, or custom business applications.

Key Features

• Full-text search across document content, tags, and metadata for instant retrieval
• OCR content extraction from scanned images and PDFs to make visual documents searchable
• Automated tagging rules that classify incoming documents based on filename or content patterns
• Email ingestion to send documents directly into your archive from any email client
• Folder-based ingestion for bulk imports from local directories
• Organizations and user invitations for shared document spaces
• Configurable document retention policies and trash management
• REST API, CLI, SDK, and webhook support for automation and integrations
• Multi-language interface with responsive design for desktop and mobile
• Custom per-organization properties for structured metadata
• Single-container deployment with SQLite — no external database required

Why deploy Papra on Hostinger VPS

Hosting Papra on your own VPS keeps your documents completely private — no third-party cloud service has access to your files, and no per-document or per-user fees apply. A Hostinger VPS gives you dedicated resources to handle OCR processing and full-text indexing without throttling, along with the storage capacity to grow your archive over years. You control backup schedules, retention policies, and access permissions directly, with no vendor lock-in and no subscription tiers limiting what you can store.

Papra's single-container architecture makes it one of the lightest document management deployments available, running comfortably on entry-level VPS plans while leaving resources for other applications. The built-in SQLite database eliminates the need for a separate database server, reducing complexity and maintenance overhead. With Hostinger's VPS infrastructure, you get reliable uptime and fast storage I/O — important for OCR processing and full-text search over large document collections. As your archive grows, upgrading your VPS plan scales storage and compute without any application-level changes. Your documents, your infrastructure, your rules.