I'm bad at organizing documents. Neatly labeled folders, cloud backups, even a color-coded spreadsheet — I've tried it all. However, no matter how many systems I tried, sticking to a system proved to be hard. Bills, invoices, receipts, and insurance documents get tucked away in some obscure corner of my email or lost in a hard drive with an obscure folder hierarchy. I knew I needed a better way to handle the endless wave of documents. That’s when I found Papra, and it’s now my favorite way to archive anything remotely resembling paperwork. Here's why.

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A document organization app is only as good as its ability to help me find the documents. I didn’t realize how often I needed to dig up an old document until I started using Papra’s search feature. Unlike typical folder-based systems, where you’re hunting blindly, Papra’s full-text search lets you find documents based on actual content inside the file. That's a godsend.

Even better, it supports optical character recognition. So, if you have a photo or scanned PDF of something, Papra can read it and make that content searchable as well. I tested this with a range of paper invoices, and unless they were exceptionally crumpled, the app had no trouble making sense of them.