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Best way to search files on remote server? (lemmy.zip)
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Context: my father is a lawyer and therefore has a bajillion pdf files that were digitised, stored in a server. I’ve gotten an idea on how to do OCR in all of them.

But after that, how can I make them easily searchable? (Keep in mind that unfortunately, the directory structure is important information to classify the files, aka you may have a path like clientABC/caseAV1/d.pdf

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[–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Might be a little heavy handed for your needs but I've found paperless-ngx to be amazing.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    My problem is paperless is the fact that it doesn’t preserve the directory structure, losing essential info

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    If tag/classification based and automated sorting is not the thing the end-user can live with, then Paperless-ngx isn't the solution, but if you have Nextcloud and you add both the to-be-preserved directory structure and Paperless-ngx's consume directory as external storage, you can have both with a little manual labour.

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