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Enter host, credentials and protocol: SFTP or SSH key, WebDAV, S3-compatible or IMAP for an email mailbox. Connection test before saving, credentials stored encrypted.
Storage Mounts · AI-DMS module
With storage mounts, you connect NAS, servers, cloud storage and email mailboxes via SFTP, WebDAV, S3 or IMAP.
Index, import or use as filing target. With failover mirror, file browser and full AI processing.
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How it works
A storage mount is a saved connection to your storage. Per mount you decide whether PaperOffice only indexes, imports or files there.
Enter host, credentials and protocol: SFTP or SSH key, WebDAV, S3-compatible or IMAP for an email mailbox. Connection test before saving, credentials stored encrypted.
Index leaves the originals unchanged; for processing, PaperOffice keeps an encrypted working copy and follows renames and edits. Import makes the EU cloud the storage location. As an SFTP filing target, a workspace stores new documents encrypted on your storage.
Search, OCR, classification and IDP run as usual, across several storages too. A second mount serves as a mirror with automatic failover.
Capabilities
Everything the AI-DMS does with documents also works on your own storage.
Over SFTP your NAS or server becomes the storage location of a workspace, with the files stored there encrypted. PaperOffice stores index, metadata and AI results.
Passwords and SSH keys are stored encrypted, connections run over SFTP, HTTPS or TLS.
A second mount as a mirror, kept in sync. If the primary fails, PaperOffice automatically reads from the mirror.
Browse remote directories directly in PaperOffice and create new folders.
One search across NAS, server and cloud. Results show which mount holds the file.
OCR, classification, IDP agents and embeddings run for mounted storage exactly as for the EU cloud.
SFTP and SSH, WebDAV with Nextcloud or ownCloud, S3-compatible storage such as AWS S3, MinIO or Wasabi, and email mailboxes via IMAP.
Reachability, latency and disk space per mount, an activity log of recent connection tests and changes, diagnostics on demand.
Comparison
The decisive question for any document system. Storage mounts answer it with: with you, if you want.
| Comparison | Classic DMS | Cloud DMS | PaperOffice storage mounts |
|---|---|---|---|
| Storage location | Own server, own maintenance | At the vendor | Your NAS, server or cloud storage |
| Migration | Complete move | Upload of all archives | None, files stay in place |
| AI processing | Add-on modules | Only on vendor storage | On every mounted storage |
| Resilience | Own backup concept | Depends on the vendor | Mirror with automatic failover |
| Changing vendors | Export required | Lock-in | Files are with you anyway |
curl -X POST \ "https://api.paperoffice.ai/latest/storage_mounts/add" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer po_ut_YOUR_API_KEY" \ -F "name=NAS Archiv" \ -F "connector_type=sftp" \ -F "mount_purpose=byos" \ -F "host=nas.example.com" \ -F "port=22" \ -F "username=paperoffice" \ -F "password=YOUR_PASSWORD" curl -X POST \ "https://api.paperoffice.ai/latest/storage_mounts/test" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer po_ut_YOUR_API_KEY" \ -F "mount_id=YOUR_MOUNT_ID" curl -X GET \ "https://api.paperoffice.ai/latest/storage_mounts/health" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer po_ut_YOUR_API_KEY" For developers
Create, test, read health status and configure mirrors, all over the same REST API the app uses.
Validate credentials before saving, re-test existing mounts at any time.
Reachability, latency and disk space of all mounts in one call, diagnostics on demand.
The MCP server sees mounted storage like any other workspace content.
Security and compliance
PaperOffice accesses the mount for scans, processing and retrieval and keeps index, metadata and AI results in its own EU data center. Credentials are stored encrypted.
Frequently asked questions
Any storage with SFTP or SSH, WebDAV such as Nextcloud or ownCloud, and S3-compatible storage such as AWS S3, MinIO, Wasabi or Backblaze B2. NAS systems from QNAP, Synology, Asustor and TrueNAS connect via SFTP. Email mailboxes connect via IMAP and serve a connector as the source for email intake.
Yes, in index mode and as filing target the originals stay on your storage. In index mode PaperOffice keeps an encrypted working copy for processing, and full text, metadata and AI results are kept in its own EU data center. In import mode the PaperOffice EU cloud becomes the storage location.
The storage mount is the connection to your storage. A connector uses a mount as source and monitors a folder there for new files, which are then processed automatically.
You add a mirror target to a mount, and PaperOffice keeps the files synchronized there. If the primary storage is unreachable, PaperOffice keeps reading from the mirror. New documents are stored again as soon as the primary is back.
Yes. OCR, classification, IDP agents, embeddings and search work for files on a mount exactly as for files in the EU cloud. You set the processing depth per workspace.
Passwords and SSH keys are stored encrypted and decrypted only to establish the connection. The API never returns them. Connection tests and changes to the mount appear in the activity log.
Yes. The REST API creates mounts, tests connections, reads health status and logs and manages mirrors. The same functions are available in the MCP server.
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