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LogicalDOC Community vs Paperless-ngx: catalog facts
LogicalDOC CommunityPaperless-ngx
Freemium

The Community Edition is free and open source. Business editions are paid.

Free

Free and open source under the GPL.

Windows, Linux, Web, Self-hosted Linux, Self-hosted, Web
  • REST and SOAP APIs for integration with other business systems
  • Access control and versioning in the free community edition
  • OCR plus full-text search turns a pile of scans into something you can actually find things in
  • Learns your tagging and classifies new documents automatically
  • Many features, including OCR and workflow, are in the paid editions
  • Java stack with a substantial resource footprint
  • Docker Compose is the realistic deployment path; there is no desktop installer
  • You need a scanner and a workflow to feed it
Self-hosted, Web application Self-hosted
Open source Open source
License: LGPL-3.0 License: GPL-3.0
Not stated if an account is needed No account needed
Not stated if it works offline Works offline

Checked September 22, 2026

Checked September 21, 2026

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