Paperless-NGX MCP Server

Example Use Cases

• 1

  Search and retrieve documents from a Paperless-NGX instance, including full-text search and downloading original or archived files.

• 2

  Automate document management workflows such as tagging, setting correspondents or document types, bulk edits (merge, split, reprocess), and uploading new documents.

• 3

  Expose Paperless-NGX operations to Claude or other MCP-capable clients via stdio or HTTP transport for conversational automation and integrations.

Description

This MCP server exposes Paperless-NGX REST API functionality to MCP-capable agents, enabling listing, searching, downloading, uploading, and bulk-editing of documents. It supports tag, correspondent, and document-type management and offers both stdio and HTTP transport modes for integration with Claude and other clients. Installation is simple via npm or Smithery, and the server uses litemcp and zod for protocol handling and validation. It streamlines automation of document workflows and conversational document management.