How to enable Paperless-ngx 3 local AI with Ollama

Paperless-ngx 3 suggests title, tags, correspondent and dates with an LLM and answers questions about your documents, all locally with Ollama. You upgrade from 2.20.15 by changing the image tag. On CPU, Gemma 4 E4B took 25.8 s per suggestion and used about 7 GiB, provided you dodge a bug with reasoning models.

September 23, 2026 20 min 57

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How to Install Paperless-ngx with Docker

Paperless-ngx is an open-source document manager that digitises and archives your papers with full-text search. In Docker it runs as five containers (application, PostgreSQL database, Valkey queue, Gotenberg and Tika) through a single docker-compose.yml, and it performs OCR and automatic tagging on every document you drop into its consume folder.

July 16, 2026 10 min 50