File it and sort it
Documents arrive by upload, the scanner inbox, a watched folder or the REST API. Classification determines type, direction and sender and suggests storage paths.
Process archiving
Records stay available and unchanged: sealed, locked until the term ends, then released for deletion.
Retention per document type, a checksum per version, a log of changes and retention events.
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How it works
An archive is not a folder, it is a rule: what may enter, how long it stays, who was allowed to see it and when it goes.
Documents arrive by upload, the scanner inbox, a watched folder or the REST API. Classification determines type, direction and sender and suggests storage paths.
Every type carries a retention period and a legal basis, and you choose the start date when you seal the document. Each version gets a SHA-256 checksum, and a new revision becomes a new version. Sealed documents are under WORM protection that stays in place until the term ends.
After the term ends, the system lifts the WORM lock and logs it. For an audit you export metadata together with the original files. Deletion stays a manual step, and a legal hold blocks it too.
What this solution covers
An archive is judged during an audit. These are the points PaperOffice covers for that moment.
Retention period, legal basis and default IDP agent follow the document type, not the person who happens to file it.
Classification determines document type, sender and direction and proposes the matching retention rule.
The archive lives in PaperOffice or on your NAS or server over SFTP. S3 and WebDAV connect as sources for import or indexing.
A legal hold locks documents beyond the end of the term. While it is active, nothing is deleted.
Metadata of selected documents can be exported as Excel, CSV, JSON or PDF, optionally with original files and OCR text.
Every revision is kept as a version. For revision-secure documents, changes are recorded with timestamp and person in the audit history.
SHA-256 over each version shows whether a file has changed since it was filed.
Every revision-secure document shows its retention end, days left and legal basis instead of getting lost in a spreadsheet.
What PaperOffice solves it with
Archiving uses the same modules as day-to-day filing. There is no second system to maintain.
Security and compliance
An archive is measured by two questions: is the content unchanged, and can you show it.
Questions about archiving
Rules such as the German GoBD ask for traceability, immutability and orderly retention. PaperOffice supplies versions, checksums, an access log and retention terms. Whether your process as a whole satisfies your regulator is a judgement for your tax advisor, based on your process documentation.
That depends on the type and your legal framework: under German law eight years for accounting records such as invoices and bank statements, ten years for ledgers, inventories and annual accounts, six years for business letters. You set the term per document type once, and when a document is sealed the system calculates the end of the term itself.
After the term ends, the system lifts the WORM lock and the document can be deleted again. Deletion stays a manual step, and the end of the term remains as an event in the document's history. An active legal hold keeps the lock in place.
Yes. Existing stock comes in through watched folders on Storage Mounts, the Data Importer (SFTP, S3, WebDAV, ZIP) or the REST API. Classification determines the document type and its term; if an IDP agent's required fields are missing, the document goes to review.
A revision-secure document cannot be deleted or moved until the term ends, and its file stays unchanged. A new revision is added as a new version, the previous one stays, and every version carries its own SHA-256 checksum.
You filter the document list by period and document type and export the metadata together with the original files. For the audit you create a user who may only read one workspace.
In our own data center in the EU. If the files should stay with you, PaperOffice stores them on your NAS or server over SFTP; index and metadata stay in the data center.
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