Search Your Paperless-ngx Documents Through Your Muse

Through a custom connector, your muse can search the scanned documents you keep in Paperless-ngx in plain words: find a letter or bill by what it says inside, not just by the file name you gave it.

What it does

The connector adds 9 tools, and every one only reads. Paperless-ngx stores scanned documents and reads their text with optical character recognition, so the full text can be searched. The muse can search that text across every document, or list documents filtered by correspondent, document type, tag, or creation date. For one document it reads the title, correspondent, type, tags, dates, and the full recognized text, plus the technical details: original file name, page count, and file type. It can list your correspondents, document types, tags, and storage paths, each with a count, and read the collection totals: how many documents, how many sit in the inbox, and the breakdown by file type.

How to use it

1. Start an AnythingMCP account and add the Paperless-ngx connector.
2. In Paperless-ngx, open the user menu, then My Profile, and copy your API Auth Token. Create one there if the field is empty.
3. Enter the token and the address of your own Paperless-ngx instance only where the connector asks. Use the base address, without /api at the end.
4. In Muse, open Settings, then Connectors, and add a custom connector with the address AnythingMCP gives you. Sign in and approve.
5. Ask in plain words: find the warranty letter that mentions the boiler, or list every invoice from one sender this year.
6. Open the document the muse finds and check the answer against the page itself.

What you need

• A Muse account that can add custom connectors
• An AnythingMCP account with the Paperless-ngx connector added
• Your own running Paperless-ngx instance, its web address, and your API token

What to watch for

• You run Paperless-ngx yourself. If that instance is off or not reachable from the internet, the connector cannot reach it either.
• Search finds only what the text reading picked up. A faint scan or crumpled page can read badly, so a missing result does not prove the document is not there.
• The token acts as your Paperless user. Anyone holding it can read the documents you can read, so keep it secret.
• The connector cannot add, edit, tag, or delete documents. Filing and changes stay inside Paperless-ngx itself.
• This is a custom connector, and Meta does not review custom connectors. You can disconnect it in Settings at any time. The muse prepares, you decide.