Board:   [DoveNet] Hardware/Software Help
Subject: Re: Paperless-ngx and sca
From:    Amessyroom
Date:    Mon Mar 02, 2026 18:01

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  Re: Re: Paperless-ngx and sca
  By: Mindsurfer to Amessyroom on Mon Mar 02 2026 01:55 pm

 Mi> Re: Re: Paperless-ngx and scanners
 Mi> By: Amessyroom to Gamgee on Mon Mar 02 2026 02:32:26

 Am>> Someone shared that you can setup a share, and have an andriod app scan
 Am>> and write to the share . So that maybe the way I try it until, I can find
 Am>> a scanner that works under linux and docker...

 Mi> That's how i do it:

 Mi> i use an epson gt-15000 under linux with VueScan(commercial but good
 Mi> software), OSS-DocumentScanner and Material Files on Android.

 Mi> My paperlessNGX is running ina LXC on a little miniPC proxmox system. The
 Mi> paperlessNGX consume folder is also a SMB share, so i can save files from
 Mi> the android phone via Material Files or from the Linux PC with the Epson
 Mi> scanner via /mnt/paperless to it.

 Mi> sudomount -t cifs -o username=youruser,vers=3.0 //server/share
 Mi> /mnt/paperless

 Mi> i guess the recommended scanners can connect directly via
 Mi> FTP/NFS/SMB/SMTP, but i am ok with storing the scanned PDFs to my
 Mi> /mnt/paperless that is mounted to the SMB share. PaperlessNGX picks the
 Mi> files up and processes them from there.

 Mi> and if i am not at home, i connect to my home LAN with my android phone
 Mi> via VPN (my home internet router has that build in). That way i can also
 Mi> accessthe paperless SMB share when i am not home and put scans in there.

 Mi> Mindsurfer

 Mi> PS: to have my folder connected to the smb share automatically when i
 Mi> start the linux PC, i added this to my /etc/fstab (yes, it is a
 Mi> passwordless guest share)

 Mi> //LAN-IP-HERE/paperless-consume /mnt/paperless cifs guest,uid=1000,gid=100
 Mi> 0,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0775,dir_mode=0775,noperm,x-sy
 Mi> stemd.automount,noauto 0 0






thanks for sharing the details. I've gotten paperless-ngx installed and playing with oss-scanner; will have to work on the smb share. I may move it onto my minipc from my pc also

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