Context: my father is a lawyer and therefore has a bajillion pdf files that were digitised, stored in a server. I’ve gotten an idea on how to do OCR in all of them.
But after that, how can I make them easily searchable? (Keep in mind that unfortunately, the directory structure is important information to classify the files, aka you may have a path like clientABC/caseAV1/d.pdf
Might be a little heavy handed for your needs but I’ve found paperless-ngx to be amazing.
My problem is paperless is the fact that it doesn’t preserve the directory structure, losing essential info
If tag/classification based and automated sorting is not the thing the end-user can live with, then Paperless-ngx isn’t the solution, but if you have Nextcloud and you add both the to-be-preserved directory structure and Paperless-ngx’s consume directory as external storage, you can have both with a little manual labour.