Paperwork Cloud

[jflesch]

First of all, like #179 , it's a very long-term idea that would take a lot of time to make. It may never happen if I (or nobody else) has the time for it or if nobody is interested. Therefore, I need to know that people may be interested even before starting to work on it.

The basic idea here is to allow people to host their documents either on their personal server or on a Cloud, but with a much-much-much-stronger focus on security and trust than OwnCloud, SparkleShare, DropBox, OneDrive, etc.

Absolute requirements are:

• Documents must be fully encrypted on server-side. Their keys and/or passwords must never be on server side. NEVER
• Opensource. client and server. Because you just can't trust proprietary crapware.
• Self-hosting allowed and encouraged.
• Fast and easy to use, as usual ;)

Strongly wanted:

• Documents must be encrypted client-side. They must be only deciphered in memory, never on disk.
• if Paperwork is used as client. It must still work offline as currently.
• Offline access to the documents (--> full synchronization)

Would be nice:

• Synchronize any file, not just Paperwork's documents

Regarding web browsers : Security in the browser is painfully hard. AFAIK, storing data offline in the browser is also kind of not-so-tested-yet. Scanning from a web browser is also currently impossible. So here, the idea is to have an extra application installed on the system talking to a server (most likely the actual Paperwork).. Later we can consider a web interface, but it's clearly not the first goal here.

Cloud hosting could be providing for a small fee (to define). It would help fund Paperwork's development and could replace the crual-and-unusual DRM currently in the Windows version.

People reading this, I need to known if you would pay for such cloud hosting. If so, please put a thumb up on this ticket ;)

[jflesch]

Not going to happen. Not enough time to do it right. I'm closing this ticket.

[lenucksi]

Maybe https://github.com/danielquinn/paperless can be of help here? Or at least some integration could probably be cool.

[jflesch]

@lenucksi : I've though of it. But there are some differences between Paperless and Paperwork that would make that difficult.

For instance, I love having my computer doing most of the work. So setting setting "matching algorithms" to get my labels automatically defined is not something I want in Paperwork.

Paperless is interested in document titles. I'm not.

[lenucksi]

Maybe some of their Django basis could be useful for the Web interface discussed elsewhere. As for a maximum of automatic extraction and assignment of information I'm with you, I like the approach of Paperwork. As for the titles: Could you not generate some sort of title with the automatically extracted information Paperwork has?