Easydict vs Paperless-ngx
Easydict and Paperless-ngx are both document management software. Easydict is open source under GPL-3.0, with 15k GitHub stars. Paperless-ngx is open source under GPL-3.0, with 47k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Easydict when
- You read or write in several languages on a Mac and want quick lookups.
- Pick Paperless-ngx when
- A household or small office wants to go paperless and can run Docker.
Side by side
A macOS dictionary and translation app that looks up selected text or OCR'd screen text across Apple, DeepL, Google, OpenAI and Chinese translation services.
Turns scanned and emailed documents into a searchable archive with OCR, automatic tagging and matching, and a web interface.
Several services need your own API keys, and docs lean Chinese.
You are responsible for backups of your only copy of important documents.
Production-ready (both)
Desktop app
Self-hosted server
Swift, Objective-C and Python
Python, Django, TypeScript, Angular, PostgreSQL and Redis
Open source, GPL-3.0 (strong copyleft) (both)
Use inside your business is unrestricted, but anything you distribute that includes it must be released under the same license. (both)
15k GitHub stars
47k GitHub stars
Established: started 4 years ago, latest release 2.25.0.
Established: started 4 years ago, latest release v3.4.1.
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from each project's README and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.