Papelada

IDs, exam results, receipts, contracts, vaccination cards: photograph a document with your phone (or upload any file), file it under a section you created, tag it, and find it again later. Papelada is Portuguese for "paperwork", or more precisely "a pile of papers".

Installation

You need Docker with Compose.

mkdir papelada && cd papelada
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/GusFurtado/papelada/main/docker-compose.yml
curl -o .env https://raw.githubusercontent.com/GusFurtado/papelada/main/.env.example
mkdir documents
docker compose up -d

Then open http://localhost:8080. The settings in .env are explained in the installation guide.

Features

• Your own sections and tags: one section per person, pet, car or house, and tags across them.
• Search by title, and expiry dates with a badge on what expired or expires soon.
• Multi-page documents straight from the phone camera, plus PDFs and any other file.
• Page editing: crop, rotate, a "scanned" look, or convert to PNG or PDF, always undoable.
• Plain files you can browse: the volume is an ordinary folder tree with readable names.
• Optional encryption at rest, with the key kept out of the volume.
• Optional login for one user, set with two environment variables.
• One small container, no database, no third-party requests. English and Brazilian Portuguese.