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Paperless Ngx vs Tesseract

Compare adoption, momentum, maintenance health, and project basics before choosing which tool to evaluate deeper.

Paperless Ngx

A community-supported supercharged document management system: scan, index and archive all your documents

Best matched with other framework tools.

43.3K
Stars
+2.8K
Weekly
82/100
Health
Tesseract

Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine (main repository)

Best matched with other framework tools.

75.5K
Stars
+1.5K
Weekly
69/100
Health

Quick Take

Adoption

Tesseract has the larger GitHub footprint with 75.5K stars.

Momentum

Paperless Ngx is currently growing faster at +2.8K stars this week.

Maintenance

Paperless Ngx has the stronger automated maintenance signal at 82/100. This is not a security or fit verdict.

Side-by-side evidence

Use these signals to narrow your choice, then confirm setup, license, and fit upstream.

SignalPaperless NgxTesseract
Evidence statusBasic listing· 2026-10-04 09:18 UTCBasic listing· 2026-10-04 09:18 UTC
GitHub stars43.3K75.5K
Weekly growth+2.8K+1.5K
Health scoreStrong82/100Healthy69/100
Contributors443236
Commits per week20.95.8
Open issues8479
LanguagePythonC++
LicenseGPL-3.0Apache-2.0
Last commit2026-07-22 15:48 UTC2026-07-22 15:29 UTC
Last releasev2.20.155.5.2

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