Intelligent Document Management.Encrypted by default.
Photograph a letter or forward an email - PaperHero reads it, files it, and finds it again when you ask. Stored encrypted, on servers in Germany.
Now available for iPhone, iPad & Android
PaperHero is the digital filing cabinet for your paperwork at home.
Letters, invoices and contracts all collect in one place. When you need one of them later, you simply ask for it.
Step 1
Put the document in
Photograph it with your phone, forward it by email, or upload it on your computer. Paper and PDF take the same route.
Step 2
PaperHero reads it
Every word is captured, photos included. It suggests a name, a date and where the document belongs, and you confirm.
Step 3
Just ask for it later
“When does my car insurance run out?” The answer comes from your own paperwork, with the document beside it.
Smart Text Recognition
Upload PDFs, photos, or scanned documents - PaperHero reads and extracts all the text automatically, so every document becomes searchable.
Find Anything Instantly
Just describe what you're looking for in your own words. PaperHero understands what you mean and finds the right document - even if the exact words don't match. Try: "When did my rent increase?"
Personal Security
Your documents are encrypted and decrypted on your device when you view them - your keys are protected by your password. Combined with secure access controls and bank-grade security. And because your documents are stored and processed only by European providers with no US parent company, the US CLOUD Act has no reach here.
Every way in. Every way out.
Scan a letter on your phone, drop a PDF in the browser, forward an email, or pipe files in from a script - everything lands in PaperHero, gets read and encrypted, and stays available wherever you need it.
INGRESS · HOW DOCUMENTS ARRIVE
Tap a step to see what it does.
Photograph a letter with the iOS or Android app, or share a PDF into PaperHero from any other app. It lands in your inbox, where text extraction and classification start right away - you only confirm where it belongs.
Drop PDFs, JPEGs and PNGs into the browser, one at a time or a whole stack. Multi-page documents stay together as a single item, and you can read the extracted text before you file it.
Your account can have its own ingress address. Forward a bill or a contract there and the PDFs and photos attached to it are filed automatically, without you lifting a finger - and a sender whitelist makes sure nobody else can post into your account.
A command-line client covers the same ground as the apps: upload, search, download and organise folders straight from a script. Useful for bulk-importing an old archive, for scheduled jobs, or for letting an AI agent do the filing. Get the client from GitHub releases.
PAPERHERO · PROCESS & SECURE
PaperHero
OCR · AI · ENCRYPTED STORAGE
- Text extraction
- AI classification
- Encrypted storage
EGRESS · HOW YOU USE THEM
Semantic search matches meaning rather than spelling: your question is compared as a vector against the text of your documents. A search for car insurance also finds the policy that only ever says motor vehicle liability - and the index itself is encrypted, opened with your key.
Ask in plain language - when does my rental contract end? The assistant searches your documents itself, reads the passages it finds and answers with the source document attached, so you can check it against the original.
Share a folder with family or colleagues across five levels, from merely seeing that it exists up to full delete rights. Granting access re-encrypts the document keys for that person specifically, and withdrawing it takes their access away again.
Nothing is locked in. Download any document as a PDF whenever you want it - decrypted on your own device at the moment you ask for it, and readable with any program you like.
Once filed, every document is encrypted with its own key, sealed to your personal key - and that key is unlocked by your password alone. Without your password, your documents stay unreadable, to us as much as to anyone else. To view one, your device unwraps the key and decrypts the file locally, in your browser or app.
From Chaos to Order
Your paperwork lives in one place, and you can reach it from anywhere. Something you filed three years ago takes seconds to find today.
- On your phone, your tablet and your computer. The same up-to-date set everywhere.
- Share individual folders with family or your accountant, with exactly the rights you grant.
- Everything is stored encrypted in German data centres beyond the reach of the US CLOUD Act - and you can download all of your documents at any time.
Start with the next letter that arrives.
The first one is filed in about a minute. PaperHero takes it from there.
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