How to Install Paperless-ai on Ubuntu 24.04

Paperless-ai is an intelligent automated document analyzer that integrates directly with Paperless-ngx to automatically analyze, tag, and categorize your documents using AI. It supports multiple AI backends including OpenAI API, Ollama (local LLMs), Deepseek-r1, Azure OpenAI, and any OpenAI-compatible API. The tool features a RAG-ready setup with vector database integration, full-text search capabilities, and multi-language document analysis. It can generate contextual tags, detect document types, recognize content patterns, and automatically organize incoming documents into the right categories. Paperless-ai runs completely self-hosted via Docker, ensuring your document data never leaves your infrastructure. With 5.8K GitHub stars and 5.7M Docker pulls, it is a mature, well-adopted solution for automating document workflows.