Nextcloud Integration
Nextcloud is your active workspace — store documents you’re working on solo or with your team, files that change, and anything you want to share in an editable format (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and more). With Collabora Online, you can edit these documents directly in the browser.
Paperless-ngx is your intelligent long-term archive for finished, immutable documents — final PDFs, invoices, contracts, scanned mail, and email attachments. Everything you need to keep, but not actively edit.
Our partner IT-ION has published a tutorial video showing how to connect Paperless-ngx with Nextcloud — so you can upload documents directly from Nextcloud into Paperless-ngx for processing. Our managed Nextcloud and Paperless-ngx instances make this integration straightforward to set up yourself.
Connect your Nextcloud to Paperless-ngx’s WebDAV import folder using the External storage support app. No duplicate storage required — once Paperless-ngx processes a file, it’s automatically removed from the Nextcloud folder.
- Install the External storage support app in Nextcloud.
- In Nextcloud, go to Administrator settings → External storage and add the Paperless-ngx WebDAV import folder:
- Folder name: Paperless-ngx
- Storage type: WebDAV
- Authentication: Username and password
- URL:
https://[YOUR_PAPERLESS_NGX_URL]/webdav/(e.g.https://paperless-ngx-demo.srv.camp/webdav/) - Remote subfolder: leave empty
- Secure https://: enabled
- Username:
paperless - Password: your Paperless-ngx instance password
- Available for: choose which users or groups should have access
- Upload documents to the Paperless-ngx folder in Nextcloud, or move existing files there. Paperless-ngx processes them automatically and removes them from the folder. If a document can’t be processed, it stays in the folder — nothing is lost.