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Technical 21 October 2026 3 min read

A Stack of Receipts, Now Sorted Receipt by Receipt

Receipts scanned together were sometimes merged into one file. PaperSweep now checks dates, how each page begins and ends, and asks the AI when it isn't sure.

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Technical 21 October 2026 3 min read

Ein Stapel Kassenbons – jetzt Bon für Bon getrennt

Zusammen gescannte Kassenbons landeten manchmal in einer Datei. Jetzt prüft PaperSweep Datum, Anfang und Ende jeder Seite – und fragt im Zweifel die KI.

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Technical 10 August 2026 5 min read

Why One Multi-Page Document Kept Splitting Into Separate Files — And How a Reader Helped Us Fix It

A reader sent us a real scanned file that PaperSweep was splitting incorrectly. Here's what was going wrong, how we fixed it, and the quieter follow-up fix a code review caught right after.

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Technical 17 July 2026 3 min read

The PDF Revolution: How AI Is Changing the Way We Manage Documents 🇬🇧🇩🇪

PDFs became the universal document format. Now AI is changing what comes next — turning static archives into searchable knowledge bases instead of digital filing cabinets. Available in English and German on the same page.

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Technical 27 June 2026 8 min read

Mistral OCR 4: Das KI-Modell hinter PaperSweep — und warum es einen Unterschied macht

Mistral OCR 4 erkennt nicht nur Text, sondern auch Struktur, Tabellenzeilen und Konfidenz — seitenweise. Wie das PaperSweep beim Dokumentensortieren hilft und warum es verdächtige PDFs sicher macht.

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Personal 6 June 2026 7 min read

PaperSweep vs. ChatGPT, Claude & Grok: Welche KI eignet sich besser zum Sortieren von Dokumenten?

PaperSweep für Dokumententrennung und -sortierung, ChatGPT, Claude oder Grok für Analyse und Verständnis — ein direkter Vergleich, welches Tool wann die bessere Wahl ist.

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Technical 17 May 2026 8 min read

Batch vs. One-by-One: What Changes When You Upload 200 Pages at Once

Processing 200 pages is not the same as processing one page 200 times. Document boundary detection, multilingual batches, confidence distributions — here's what changes at scale.

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Technical 10 May 2026 6 min read

Why We Delete Your Files After 2 Hours

Most file processing services keep your uploads. PaperSweep deletes them automatically. Here's the reasoning behind it — and what "deleted" actually means on our servers.

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Technical 3 May 2026 7 min read

How AI Actually Reads a Scanned Document

Upload a blurry invoice and PaperSweep tells you what it is within seconds. Here's a plain-English explanation of OCR, language model classification, and confidence scoring.

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Personal 26 April 2026 7 min read

Starting a Business Abroad: The Document Chaos Nobody Warns You About

Registering a GmbH in Germany while running properties in Spain taught us that cross-border document management is its own full-time problem — before we found a system that worked.

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Personal 19 April 2026 6 min read

I Finally Sorted Five Years of Paperwork — Here's What I Found

The accordion folder under my desk had been an act of faith for five years. When I finally opened it, I found three things worth acting on — and recovered more than €400 in the same afternoon.

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