Docker

TL;DR

The only two required environment variables are PAPERMERGE__MAIN__SECRET_KEY* and DJANGO_SUPERUSER_PASSWORD*:

docker run -p 8000:8000 \
    -e PAPERMERGE__MAIN__SECRET_KEY=abc \
    -e DJANGO_SUPERUSER_PASSWORD=123 \
    papermerge/papermerge:latest

Use POST http://localhost:8000/api/auth/login/ endpoint to authenticate.

Credentials are:

• username admin

• password 123

Official Docker Images

Offical Papermerge DMS docker images are stored on docker hub and github packages.

Get Docker Image

The recommended way to get the Papermerge DMS Docker Image is to pull the prebuilt image from the github repository packages:

docker pull papermerge/papermerge:latest

To use a specific version, you can pull a versioned tag. You can view the list of available versions in the github repository packages:

docker pull papermerge/papermerge:2.1.1

Adding OCR Languages to the Docker Image

By default the Docker image includes English and German OCR languages only.

You may want to add other OCR languages. You add extra OCR languages in three steps:

1. Install extra langs in docker image (by extending it)

2. Update papermerge.toml file with extra languages

3. Use/Mount papermerge.toml in docker, docker compose, kubernetes

You install extra languages in docker image by creating a new Dockerfile from papermerge/papermerge docker image. Create new docker file with following content:

FROM papermerge/papermerge

# add Italian, Spanish and French
RUN apt install tesseract-ocr-ita tesseract-ocr-spa tesseract-ocr-fra

Note

FROM papermerge/papermerge pull docker image from DockerHub. If you write FROM ghcr.io/papermerge/papermerge it pulls docker image from GitHub container registry.

All languages are specified in three letters code as per ISO 639-2T standard - second column in the table.

Then run following command:

docker build -t mypapermerge:multi-lang -f Dockerfile .

Notice the “.” character at the end. After running above command, you can use newly build docker image for lunching Papermerge DMS with Italian, Spanish and French OCR languages.

Besides installing extra OCR languages in docker image, you also need to mount papermerge.toml file with following OCR languages configuration:

[ocr]
languages = { ita = "Italian", fra = "French", spa = "Spanish", eng = "English", deu = "German" }
default_language = "ita"

Important

languages must be written as one line! It uses so called inline table of toml format.

Here is an example of docker compose file which mounts papermerge.toml file:

version: '3.7'
x-backend: &common
  image: mypapermerge:multi-lang  # <--- use docker image with extra OCR langs
  volumes:
    - media_root:/app/media
    - xapian_index: /app/xapian_index
    - ./papermerge.toml:/etc/papermerge.toml  # <--- Mounted papermerge.toml (!)
  environment:
    - PAPERMERGE__MAIN__SECRET_KEY=12345SKK
    - DJANGO_SUPERUSER_PASSWORD=1234
    - PAPERMERGE__REDIS__HOST=redis
    - PAPERMERGE__REDIS__PORT=6379
    - PAPERMERGE__DATABASE__TYPE=postgres
    - PAPERMERGE__DATABASE__USER=postgres
    - PAPERMERGE__DATABASE__NAME=postgres
    - PAPERMERGE__DATABASE__PASSWORD=postgres
    - PAPERMERGE__DATABASE__HOST=db
    - PAPERMERGE__DATABASE__PORT=5432
    - PAPERMERGE__SEARCH__ENGINE=xapian
    - PAPERMERGE__SEARCH__PATH=/app/xapian_index
services:
  backend:
    <<: *common
    labels:
      - "traefik.enable=true"
      - "traefik.http.routers.backend.rule=Host(`mydms.local`) && PathPrefix(`/api/`)"
  ws_server:
    <<: *common
    command: ws_server
    labels:
      - "traefik.enable=true"
      - "traefik.http.routers.ws_server.rule=Host(`mydms.local`) && PathPrefix(`/ws/`)"
  worker:
    <<: *common
    command: worker
  traefik:
    image: "traefik:v2.6"
    command:
      - "--api.insecure=true"
      - "--providers.docker=true"
      - "--providers.docker.exposedbydefault=false"
      - "--entrypoints.web.address=:80"
    ports:
      - "6080:80"
    volumes:
      - "/var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:ro"
  frontend:
    image: papermerge/papermerge.js:latest
    labels:
      - "traefik.enable=true"
      - "traefik.http.routers.traefik.rule=Host(`mydms.local`) && PathPrefix(`/`)"
  redis:
    image: redis:6
    ports:
      - '6379:6379'
  db:
    image: postgres:14.4
    volumes:
      - postgres_data:/var/lib/postgresql/data/
    environment:
      - POSTGRES_USER=postgres
      - POSTGRES_DB=postgres
      - POSTGRES_PASSWORD=postgres
volumes:
  media_root:
  postgres_data:
  xapian_index:

Note

For detailed explanation of docker compose file, see Docker Compose Detailed Explanation

Use PostgreSQL as Database

By default Papermerge DMS uses sqlite3 database. In order to use PostgreSQL use following docker compose file:

version: '3.7'

services:
  app:
    image: papermerge/papermerge
    environment:
      - PAPERMERGE__MAIN__SECRET_KEY=abc
      - DJANGO_SUPERUSER_PASSWORD=12345
      - PAPERMERGE__DATABASE__TYPE=postgres
      - PAPERMERGE__DATABASE__USER=postgres
      - PAPERMERGE__DATABASE__PASSWORD=123
      - PAPERMERGE__DATABASE__NAME=postgres
      - PAPERMERGE__DATABASE__HOST=db
    ports:
      - 8000:8000
    depends_on:
      - db
  db:
    image: bitnami/postgresql:14.4.0
    volumes:
      - postgres_data:/var/lib/postgresql/data/
    environment:
      - POSTGRES_PASSWORD=123
volumes:
    postgres_data:

Above mentioned docker compose file can be used to start Papermerge DMS REST API backend server which will use PostgreSQL database to store data.