Paperless Mobile

An (almost) fully fledged mobile paperless client.

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Important Notice

This project is under very active development. Breaking changes are expected and therefore a clean install is recommended for each update!

About The Project

Paperless Mobile brings paperless-ngx to your smartphone without any compromises. While you can use paperless-ngx from a mobile browser, managing your documents this way is often a tedious and slow process. The app integrates a custom scanner, biometric authentication and many more conveniences to help you make the transition from a paper-based to a fully digital office experience.

🚀 Highlights

✔️ View your documents at a glance
✔️ Add, delete or edit documents
✔️ Share, download and preview files
✔️ Manage and assign labels
✔️ Scan and upload documents to paperless
✔️ Upload existing documents from other apps via Paperless Mobile
✔️ Easily process and manage new documents in the dedicated inbox
✔️ Search for documents using a wide range of filter criteria
✔️ Secure your data with a biometric factor
✔️ Support for TLS mutual authentication (client certificates)
✔️ Modern, intuitive UI built according to the Material Design 3 specification
✔️ Available in English, German, Polish, French, Catalan, Czech and Turkish language with more to come

Built With

Getting Started

To get a local copy up and running follow these simple steps.

Prerequisites

• Install an IDE of your choice (e.g. VSCode with the Dart/Flutter extensions)
• Install the flutter SDK (https://docs.flutter.dev/get-started/install) or use the flutter git submodule pinned in this project by running git submodule update --init inside the project root directory.

Install dependencies and generate files

1. First, clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/astubenbord/paperless-mobile.git

You can now run the scripts/install_dependencies.sh script at the root of the project, which will automatically install dependencies and generate files for both the app and local packages.

If you want to manually install dependencies and build generated files, you can also run the following commands:

Inside the packages/paperless_api/ folder:

2. Install the dependencies for paperless_api

   flutter pub get

3. Build generated files for paperless_api

    flutter pub run build_runner build --delete-conflicting-outputs

Inside the project's root folder

4. Install the dependencies for the app

   flutter packages pub get

5. Build generated files for the app

   flutter packages pub run build_runner build --delete-conflicting-outputs

6. Generate the localization files for the app

   flutter gen-l10n

Build release version

In order to build a release version, you have to...

1. Exchange the signing configuration in android/app/build.gradle from

buildTypes {
    release {
        signingConfig signingConfigs.release
    }
}

to

buildTypes {
    release {
        signingConfig signingConfigs.debug
    }
}

or use your own signing configuration as described in https://docs.flutter.dev/deployment/android#signing-the-app and leave the build.gradle as is.

2. Build the app with release profile (here for android):

flutter build apk

The --release flag is implicit for the build command. You can also run this command with --split-per-abi, which will generate three separate (smaller) binaries.

3. Install the app to your device (when omitting the --split-per-abi flag)

flutter install

or when you built with --split-per-abi

flutter install --use-application-binary=build/pp/outputs/flutter-apk/<apk_file_name>.apk

Languages and Translations

If you want to contribute by translating a language, feel free to join the Crowdin project!

Thanks to the following contributors for providing translations:

• German and English language translated by astubenbord
• Czech language translated by svetlemodry
• Turkish language translated by imsakg
• Polish language translated by losiu97
• French language translated by JigSawFr, SpicyWasab and nathanaelhoun
• Catalan language translated by rubenix

Roadmap

• Fully custom document scanner optimized for common white A4 documents and optimized for the use with Paperless
• Add more languages
• Support for IOS and publish to AppStore
• Automatic releases and CI/CD with fastlane
• Templates for recurring scans (e.g. monthly payrolls with same title, dates at end of month, fixed correspondent and document type)

See the open issues for a full list of issues and open feature requests for requested features.

Contributing

Contributions are what make the open source community such an amazing place to learn, inspire, and create. Any contributions you make are greatly appreciated. All bug reports or feature requests are welcome, even if you can't contribute code!

If you have a suggestion that would make this better, please fork the repo and create a pull request. You can also simply open an issue with the tag "enhancement". Don't forget to give the project a star! Thanks again!

1. Fork the Project
2. Create your Feature Branch (git checkout -b feature/AmazingFeature)
3. Commit your Changes (git commit -m 'feat: Add some AmazingFeature')
4. Push to the Branch (git push origin feature/AmazingFeature)
5. Open a Pull Request

License

Distributed under the GNU General Public License v3.0. See LICENSE.txt for more information.

Donations

I you wish to support the development of this project, you can donate through GitHub Sponsors (see "Sponsor this project" on the right). Any donation is much appreciated and keeps the development of this project alive!

Contributors

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Troubleshooting

Suggestions are not selectable in any of the label form fields

This is a known issue and it has to do with accessibility features of Android. Password managers such as Bitwarden often caused this issue. Luckily, this can be resolved by turning off the accessibility features in these apps. This could also be observed with apps that are allowed to display over other apps, such as emulations of the dynamic island on android.

I cannot log in since the update to paperless-ngx 1.14.0 (and above).

The app has to somehow get information about it's user from the paperless API. Therefore, the Users -> View and the UISettings -> View permissions are required for each user trying to log into the app. Otherwise, the app has no way of obtaining your user id and other information required for the usage of most features.