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Paperless-ngx

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What is Paperless-ngx

Paperless-ngx is an application that indexes your scanned documents and allows you to easily search for documents and store metadata alongside your documents. It was a fork from paperless-ngx, in turn a fork from the original Paperless, neither of which are maintained any longer.

-- https://github.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx

Preparation

The following placeholders will be used:

  • paperless.company is the FQDN of the Paperless-ngx install.
  • authentik.company is the FQDN of the authentik install.

authentik Configuration

Step 1 - OAuth2/OpenID Provider

Create a OAuth2/OpenID Provider (under Applications/Providers) with these settings:

Name : Paperless Redirect URI: https://paperless.company/accounts/oidc/authentik/login/callback/

Step 2 - Application

Create an application (under Resources/Applications) with these settings:

Name: Paperless Slug: paperless Provider: Paperless

Paperless Configuration

If you have Paperless-ngx setup in Docker, add the following environment variables to your Paperless-ngx compose file:

environment:
PAPERLESS_APPS: allauth.socialaccount.providers.openid_connect
PAPERLESS_SOCIALACCOUNT_PROVIDERS: >
{
"openid_connect": {
"APPS": [
{
"provider_id": "authentik",
"name": "Authentik",
"client_id": "<Client ID>",
"secret": "<Client Secret>",
"settings": {
"server_url": "https://authentik.company/application/o/paperless/.well-known/openid-configuration"
}
}
],
"OAUTH_PKCE_ENABLED": "True"
}
}

Now restart your container: docker compose down && docker compose up -d

Finished

Now you can access Paperless-ngx by logging in with authentik.

To add authentik authentication to an existing user, log in to Paperless with local authentication, click the profile icon in the top-right, click My Profile, then Connect new social account.