Docs & paperless office
Updated 2026-07-20 · 8 min read · By Ben Liu
Wikis, OCR document vaults, and PDF utilities for households and tiny offices.
Paper is a backup problem
OCR vaults only help if scans are consistent and restores are practiced. Keep original PDFs exportable. Wikis hold procedures — export critical runbooks to static copies for outages.
Compare before committing
Paperless-ngx and Docspell solve overlapping jobs differently. Pilot with one drawer of documents. Stirling-PDF is the utility belt for merges and redacted pages — not a vault.
Projects in this collection
Tools in this stack are listed for context. This column leads with guides — open each project only when you need a deeper lab note.
BookStack
Organize and store information. Stores documentation in a book like fashion.
Paperless-ngx
Scan, index, and archive all of your paper documents with an improved interface (fork of Paperless).
Stirling-PDF
Local hosted web application that allows you to perform various operations on PDF files, such as merging, spl…