Plugin for papermerge DMS

[awat87]

Hello all,

I have now tried for some time to run Papermerge in a jail but finally failed because I am not allowed to access my normal raid from the jail. But since it is a DMS, I think it should be done that way, because the scanner automatically stores the documents on a SMB share and papermerge should process the documents from the jail.


Now to my question can anyone here make a plugin with papermerge
Installation instructions: https://www.papermerge.com/docs/Installation/installation.html#detailed-version

As I said, it looks pretty good, except that you can't access the SMB share from the jail.

Thanks a lot

Regards
Andy

 

[ChrisRJ]

Not an answer, sorry. But I would be interested why you chose this DMS. It seems rather limited for the free version and not cheap or the commerical ones. Or do I miss something? I am looking for a solution myself, hence my interest. Hope this is not too off-topic.

 

[danb35]

except that you can't access the SMB share from the jail.

Does it have to scan to (or read from) a SMB share? That sounds like a stupid and pointless restriction. Is it capable of simply dealing with a specified directory? If it can do that, you're set--just set up a mount point for the desired directory inside the jail.

Edit: Giving it a try now, and man, this sucks. Documentation's out of date, dependencies are omitted, paths for required tools are hard-coded (which means that ./manage.py check lies to you about what the problem is)... No doubt I can figure out which config file tells it to only listen on 127.0.0.1, but is it worth the trouble?

 

[danb35]

It seems rather limited for the free version and not cheap or the commerical ones.

Are there different versions of the software, or is it a matter of different feature sets for different prices when they're hosting it? Their pricing page makes it sound like the latter--self-hosting is full-featured and free (for the software), with support contracts available if desired (for €799/yr), but the monthly prices shown on that page (€19/mo for personal, €49/mo for business) appear to apply when they're hosting it for you. But I may be reading things into that page that just aren't there.

 

[awat87]

Sorry for my late respons...

It only costs money if you buy it as a service, if you run it yourself it is free.

I got everything running, I also have the dependencies in the config (papermerge.conf.py).

so far everything is working, the only thing I couldn't do yet is:

1) run the whole thing as a service --> you have to have 2 instances running at the same time(server and worker)

2) to access the SMB share (the share is in the same pool, but not in the jail) from the jail. Here always comes the message that it is not allowed.