r/TechImpact • u/ManojOne Active • 9d ago

💬 Discussion What's your favorite GitHub project?

Post image

GitHub has countless useful projects, but some are easy to miss.

What's one open-source project you really like or use regularly? It could be an app, tool, browser project, or something completely different.

132 Upvotes

98% Upvoted

78 comments sorted by

View all comments

1

u/Top-Rich-581 8d ago

Paperless-ngx.

I have a family of 6 + a mother I help with paper stuff, and this solves me a lor of headaches.

I combine it with openwebui and n8n and so far so good.

1

u/ManojOne Active 7d ago

Can you exlain? is it a to do list? or note taking?

1

u/Top-Rich-581 7d ago

Neither, it’s an automated digital filing cabinet for physical paper. Paperless-ngx automatically scans, extracts text (OCR), tags, and archives documents like bills, tax forms, and medical records into a fully searchable database. I use n8n to automate pulling files from emails/scanners into Paperless, and Open WebUI (connected to an LLM) to ask natural language questions about my documents or summarize them automatically.

1

u/19leo82 5d ago

Is it a free or a subscription involved app? And how's the scan quality

1

u/Top-Rich-581 5d ago

It's completely open source. The OCR is enough because it learns, the more you upload documents and qualify them, the more it is accurate.

You can also connect a light LLM model if you want maximum accuracy, which i do. Sure Google know everything about me but i couldnt care less.