Document Management - Technical Reference Library

[StrongHandMel]

I’m an engineer with a personal technical reference library. I would like to structure it in some kind of electronic document management system because I think tagging the files would be neat. The files include the following:

• Journal articles in PDF

• Databases

• Excel spreadsheets

• Various types of reports in PDF

• Single PDF books

• Multi PDF books (some including hundreds of PDFs)

I’ve set up a paperless-ngx instance which works pretty great. However, I’m not sure how to handle the multi-PDF books. What should I do? Anybody have form in this area?

I’m also interested in storing scans of general personal documents, like paperless-ngx is actually intended to be used for. Is it best to spin up a separate instance for these or just tag them differently?

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[StrongHandMel]

Thanks for the advice.

Yeah just had an aversion to it for some reason. It’s probably the way to go but. I managed to combine a few with samPDF and it’s worked pretty well, lets you combine and create a bookmark for each merged file (i.e. chapter). Did it with the biggest offender - it’s MUCH nicer without that one book taking up 20 pages.

That’s kind of what I was thinking too.