@nobodyinperson@fosstodon.orgAmazing, #paperless can be configured to find QR codes matching a regular expression, search-replace that into a tag name and tag the document with it! You can even put emoji into the QR codes to shorten the tags. I'll try to print my own little QR code stickers now.
@nobodyinperson@fosstodon.orgFirst road bump with #paperless for me today. The permission system is weird. It seems impossible to make a user that can just view documents with a certain tag or from a certain correspondent. Apparently one needs to manually (or automatically on document addition) add that user as "owner". And paperless doesn't seem to have a link sharing system for *multiple* documents or a spec…
@nobodyinperson@fosstodon.orgI'm currently working through a ridiculous pile of paperwork that has accumulated over the last turbulent months (handing in #PhD, birth of K2, etc.)
#Paperless, a good scanner (Epson ES-580W), and these¹ little ASN-QR-code stickers make digitization of anything paper a bliss!
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@nobodyinperson@fosstodon.orgThe #homelab is noodling all our >5000 documents for the initial #paperless import. Kinda stupid that paperless bluntly requeues everything *in addition again* when you restart it (e.g. to fine tune import settings).
@nobodyinperson@fosstodon.orgIf you have an #sqlite-backed #paperless consume your email attachments, you'll frequently run into "database locked" errors. It'll retry next time, so you'll get there eventually, but still annoying. Might need to migrate to a
@nobodyinperson@fosstodon.orgAfter 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
