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Self-Host Paperless-ngx On Your Own Server
Go Paperless: Scan, Search And Archive Every Document
Turn scanned letters, receipts and PDFs into a searchable archive with OCR, automatic tagging and full-text search. Your documents stay on your own server.
What ZipLoom Does When You Launch It
The Publisher's Own Image
ZipLoom runs Paperless-ngx project's official image (ghcr.io/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx:3.3) on a server you rent from Vultr, DigitalOcean, Contabo or Amazon Lightsail. Nothing is rebuilt or repackaged on the way.
Secrets Generated For You
The 3 secrets this app needs are generated at launch and kept in your project's encrypted vault, never typed by hand or stored in plain settings.
Your Admin Sign-In, Ready
The first admin password is generated for you; you reveal it in the Secrets Vault (Guild plan and up).
Everything It Needs, Beside It
postgres:18 and valkey/valkey:9-alpine start next to it on the same server, on a private network the internet cannot reach.
Your Data Stays On Your Server
Its data folders live on your server and are kept across every redeploy and update.
Its Address Set For You
The app is told its own public address at every deploy, on your custom domain with https or on the server's IP.
An Image Vulnerability Scan
At every deploy the image is scanned on your server for known vulnerabilities and the counts are shown in the deploy log. The scan reports; it does not block the deploy.
The Facts
- Publisher
- Paperless-ngx project
- Official image
ghcr.io/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx:3.3- Runs beside it
- postgres:18, valkey/valkey:9-alpine
- Server memory
- 2 GB RAM or more
- Licence
- GNU GPL v3 (open source).
- Links
- Homepage · Documentation
Good To Know Before You Launch
- Sign in as 'admin' with the password in this project's Secrets Vault. Public sign-up is off.
- Upload in the browser or the mobile apps; text recognition (OCR) is the heavy part, so large batches take a while on a small server.