Life Cycle Management: Auto document removal after a period of time

[iverona]

Hello,

paperless-ng is a great tool that I'm starting to use more and more, and I found a feature that is important for me and was missing: Life Cycle Management. This means that I can automatically remove (or tag to be removed) documents after say 15 days, 6 months or 5 years for important documents.

As I didn't want to change the data model I decided to implement this as a "sidecar" script or container that checks the documents through the API. I know it's the poor man's solution but hey, it works.

If anyone wants to give it a try, it's here: https://github.com/iverona/paperless_lcm

Let me know what do you think and if someone would like to work on it to improve the code or the integration with paperless-ng I'd be happy to join forces.

WARNING: Be careful, this WILL remove your documents if not properly configured.