u/AleaNCore

The product

PaperSweep (papersweep.eu) takes a batch-scanned PDF — the kind you get when you throw 200 pages into a scanner without sorting — splits it by document, OCR-reads and classifies each one, and returns a ZIP with categorised folders plus an Excel log. 16 categories, 8 languages, no account, no tracking, files deleted within 2 hours, EU servers.

The market

No clean TAM figure. The pain is real and widespread — anyone with a scanner and a document backlog. Primary focus: German-speaking Europe (DE/AT/CH), where paper bureaucracy is a genuine cultural condition. Competition is either general AI assistants (wrong workflow) or B2B extraction APIs (wrong audience). No consumer-facing, no-login, batch-scan-specific product exists in this space that I've found.

Stage

Live, functional, ~5 visitors/day. Not raising. Bootstrapped alongside a day job.

Conversion strategy

SEO/GEO, Reddit, cold outreach to German tax advisors who batch-scan client documents, eventual Product Hunt launch. This is the weakest part — happy to be told I'm wrong.

Why me

Built this because I had the problem myself and couldn't find anything that handled a mixed batch scan without a developer setup or US servers. The privacy-first approach isn't marketing — it's how I'd want to use it.

Roast targets

Does the landing page explain the product in 5 seconds? Is no-login a trust signal or a red flag? I have currently 16 hard-coded document categories and additional that AI suggests. Is there anyway better way to handle it that suits Europe's multi-cultural setting.

The product

PaperSweep (papersweep.eu) takes a batch-scanned PDF — the kind you get when you throw 200 pages into a scanner without sorting — splits it by document, OCR-reads and classifies each one, and returns a ZIP with categorised folders plus an Excel log. 16 categories, 8 languages, no account, no tracking, files deleted within 2 hours, EU servers.

The market

No clean TAM figure. The pain is real and widespread — anyone with a scanner and a document backlog. Primary focus: German-speaking Europe (DE/AT/CH), where paper bureaucracy is a genuine cultural condition. Competition is either general AI assistants (wrong workflow) or B2B extraction APIs (wrong audience). No consumer-facing, no-login, batch-scan-specific product exists in this space that I've found.

Stage

Live, functional, ~5 visitors/day. Not raising. Bootstrapped alongside a day job.

Conversion strategy

SEO/GEO, Reddit, cold outreach to German tax advisors who batch-scan client documents, eventual Product Hunt launch. This is the weakest part — happy to be told I'm wrong.

Why me

Built this because I had the problem myself and couldn't find anything that handled a mixed batch scan without a developer setup or US servers. The privacy-first approach isn't marketing — it's how I'd want to use it.

Roast targets

Does the landing page explain the product in 5 seconds? Is no-login a trust signal or a red flag? I have currently 16 hard-coded document categories and additional that AI suggests. Is there anyway better way to handle it that suits Europe's multi-cultural setting.

Hi all,
I've had a backlog of scanned household documents for years — Versicherungspost, tax letters, payslips, the usual, and yeah, kids drawings somewhere in the pile.
Batch-scanning everything into one giant PDF is easy. Sorting it afterwards is where it always fell apart.

So I built something: you upload a single multi-page PDF (a batch scan), and it splits it by document, OCR-reads each one, classifies it into a category, and returns a ZIP with named folders and an Excel log. No account, no cookies, files deleted within 2 hours or immediately if selected. EU servers, GDPR-compliant.

It's live at papersweep.eu

I am not looking for any investor or going to pitch the idea to anyone. I built it for fun and found it useful and hope that it would be helpful for others.
I am looking for ideas what else to add there that might be useful to people. I will tackle those in the next iteration.

Cheers.

Hi all,
I've had a backlog of scanned household documents for years — Versicherungspost, tax letters, payslips, the usual, and yeah, kids drawings somewhere in the pile.
Batch-scanning everything into one giant PDF is easy. Sorting it afterwards is where it always fell apart.

So I built something: you upload a single multi-page PDF (a batch scan), and it splits it by document, OCR-reads each one, classifies it into a category, and returns a ZIP with named folders and an Excel log. No account, no cookies, files deleted within 2 hours or immediately if selected. EU servers, GDPR-compliant.

It's live at papersweep.eu

I am not looking for any investor or going to pitch the idea to anyone. I built it for fun and found it useful and hope that it would be helpful for others.
I am looking for ideas what else to add there that might be useful to people. I will tackle those in the next iteration.

Cheers.