Self-Hosted Alternatives to Popular Services

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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/vortexmak on 2025-06-20 16:53:02+00:00.

Paperless-ngx is one of the more popular self hosted apps around here.

I'm just wondering what's the advantage of using it over manually putting the files in folders?

I have a pretty good folder structure already that I place all my files in. And most of my files are already paperless, for the rare things that I have to scan, I just scan and add it manually. I don't have a need for tagging or OCR.

Is there any other advantage of using paperless-ngx?

• Does it automatically download files from websites like utility companies, banks and medical records? That IMO takes the most time, gathering the documents from different websites

• Does it automatically rename files on a specific pattern?

I can't really tell why it's so popular