Share your personal setup?

[smichaelsen]

@ciur Would you mind sharing your personal setup? I consider throwing away everything I have regarding document management (apart from the files of course, I'll need to migrate them) and start from scratch. I might as well take inspiration from others then. So, if you feel comfortable sharing some or all of this information, I'd appreciate it very much.

• Where do you run papermerge (locally in your home, some cloud server, ..)?
• What hardware runs your papermerge (CPU, RAM)?
• What scanner(s) do you use?
• How are your scans transferred into your inbox?
• Do you sometimes "scan" documents with your phone?
• If yes, how are they transferred into your inbox?
• What else is essential to your personal setup that I forgot to ask?

[ciur]

My Papermerge instance runs in my "home lab", on old Dell computer with i5 CPU and 8 GB of RAM. On that machines runs Ubuntu 22.04. For installing/backup/restore of data I use these ansible playbooks: https://github.com/papermerge/ansible Regarding scanner, I have Brother ADS 2800W. I usually scan my docs/receipts once a week. I just feed the whole batch in the scanner; the scanner saves all scanned docs on USB stick as one single PDF file, which I manually move to my laptop, where, again manually, upload scanned docs (as one PDF file) to my paper instance. Then I spend some time moving around individual pages/docs into separate folders/docs.

As of now, my instance stores 6893 pages spread in 1792 documents.

btw, @smichaelsen, thank you for sponsoring Papermerge project, I highly appreciate that !