Work & documents

Turn piles of receipts and invoices into a searchable database

No more hunting for that one receipt at tax time. Scan, drop, done.

1. 1

   Tidy loose scans first with Stirling-PDF (merge and split).

   Stirling-PDF →
2. 2

   Feed them into Paperless-ngx: automatic OCR makes everything searchable by date, amount or vendor (setup needs a little know-how — recruiting a techie relative is fair play).

   Paperless-ngx →
3. 3

   New routine: once a month, dump that month's documents in. When you can search by vendor name, you have won.