I'm gonna feed it into my setup of https://docs.paperless-ngx.com/ once I have all the docs downloaded. It obviously won't be perfect because a lot of these docs are copies of copies of copies and are barely readable by the naked eye, but it will help. If you haven't heard of Paperless-ngx and know how to do things like run Linux or use Docker I HIGHLY recommend trying it out. I scan pretty much everything now. It was a HUGE help when I was fighting to get my mom on Medicaid last year before she died. I was able to scan in a ton of stuff and search for terms to find stuff like her pension info. If I need a copy of my DD-214 I just search my DB for DD-214 and it spits it right out. I fed it all of the txt, pdf, doc, and xls (and their variants) from my NAS and it pulled all of it in.
You can also create tags that can "learn", so if I tag a doc as govt, medical, Mom, and signed it will analyze it and mark other similar docs with the same tags. Then I can search for tags instead of just terms. Worked great for my taxes last year. Pro tip - I have tags for the year (like 2025) as well.
I'm gonna feed it into my setup of https://docs.paperless-ngx.com/ once I have all the docs downloaded. It obviously won't be perfect because a lot of these docs are copies of copies of copies and are barely readable by the naked eye, but it will help. If you haven't heard of Paperless-ngx and know how to do things like run Linux or use Docker I HIGHLY recommend trying it out. I scan pretty much everything now. It was a HUGE help when I was fighting to get my mom on Medicaid last year before she died. I was able to scan in a ton of stuff and search for terms to find stuff like her pension info. If I need a copy of my DD-214 I just search my DB for DD-214 and it spits it right out. I fed it all of the txt, pdf, doc, and xls (and their variants) from my NAS and it pulled all of it in.
You can also create tags that can "learn", so if I tag a doc as govt, medical, Mom, and signed it will analyze it and mark other similar docs with the same tags. Then I can search for tags instead of just terms. Worked great for my taxes last year. Pro tip - I have tags for the year (like 2025) as well.
Really cool, it's out of my league but maybe one day I'll learn how