Paperbank is a web application library designed to help store, manage and share pdfs documents. The platform can be deployed as a web application online, or It can be deployed as a local library within a local network.
It is written in python using the Django web framework(more info: www.djangoproject.com),
- Ability for visitors to get pdf documents
- User managements and permissions.
A working version of the library. can be found at www.paperbank.net
- Start by cloning the repo
$ git clone
- Setup a virtualenv\
$ virtualenv paperbank
- Install requirements
$ pip install -r requirements.txt
- Setup environment variables
$ export paperbank_debug=True
$ export paperbank_rollbar_key='secret'
$ export paperbank_secret_key='secret'
You can put the environment variables in .bashrc to automatically load on a linux system.