I built Docovia - alternative to Paperless-ngx
I've been using paperless-ngx to host my personal docs, and I'd grown unhappy with it — slow search, poor results. As an experiment I bolted Typesense onto it, search got remarkably better, and that convinced me to rebuild it from scratch.
So over the last few days, I wrote a side project: Docovia — the land for your docs. You can drop in your documents — PDFs, scans, docs, spreadsheets — and they get OCR'd, titled, dated, tagged, summarized, and made instantly searchable.
To keep things simple, Docovia doesn't use any database, instead storing the metadata in JSON files, so it's easy to backup. And it does LLM enrichment using super cheap OpenAI Luna model. Running 8,500 of my own docs through it cost about $10 total.
Docovia was built with Claude (and Claude Design, which I'm now a fan of), and is open-source under Apache 2.0 License.
The launch blog post is here: https://manishrjain.com/launching-docovia
A read-only demo is running here: https://docovia-demo.manishrjain.com/
Give it a try!