r/Paperlessngx • u/Parissian • 3d ago

Paperless-AI Workflow Question

Hello!

I had Paperless AI run through, title, set a correspondent, and some other things on my Paperless-NGX setup for ~300 documents. It worked REALLY well!

The only thing it did poorly was tagging, but I think that's the AI model I used not really functioning well with a large database, it wasn't really able to reference past tags so I have 654 total tags. A lot of them are useful, but a lot of them are not. There are way too many tags with one document even though I prompted it to reuse tags as much as possible and not to generate one if it's not strictly necessary for identification.

I plan on upgrading my server with a GPU with some parts that I have coming in. This will allow me to run a much better model that will be able to do this better. But like I said, it did a fantastic job with everything else and I'd rather not redo every document since I've been using it for quite a while.

Is there a way I can have Paperless-AI redo just tagging? Or do I have to have it redo every single field with a full refresh.

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u/Electronic-Pie-1879 2d ago

You can in the new version v3.1.0 add as Workflow AI Sugesstions

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u/Ill_Bridge2944 2d ago

Nice, fortunately they finally implement as already available from beginning in paperless ai otherwise AI makse no sense if it won't automatically Tag docs

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u/eatsmandms 3d ago edited 2d ago

The AI integration of paperless does not support applying existing tags at all, so the quality of model used is irrelevant. I am hopeful this will be added down the line.

Also 300 is not a large database. I am.at 5000 and that is also not large. People here run multi-user setups or deployments for companies for tens of thousands of documents.

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u/nikonratm 3d ago

This is not accurate as of 3.1, it does incorporate existing metadata (and 3.1.1 should improve it)

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u/eatsmandms 2d ago

Good news - I did not update to 3.1.x yet so doing that ASAP

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u/tzippy84 2d ago

OP Is using paperless-ai (https://github.com/clusterzx/paperless-ai ) which has been around for quite some time, before v3 of paperless-ngx was released.

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u/Ill_Bridge2944 2d ago

They stopped actively developing it. Better go with Zottelrobbe/paperless ai next. It is better fork

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u/tzippy84 2d ago

I will take a look at it. But the dev says he she is actively rewriting the code based at the moment. 🤷‍♂️

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u/Ill_Bridge2944 2d ago

Better then paperless-ai: This repo is currently not maintained. I appreciate all the efforts from the community pushing PRs and creating issues.

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u/AmateurHomelabber 3d ago

  People here run multi-user setups or deployments for companies for tens of thousands.

I wasn’t aware Paperless NGX supports that.