Readur Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Readur hosting on xCloud gives you a private document library with OCR and full-text search on your own domain. Deploy Readur with the pinned 2.9.2 image beside a private PostgreSQL 18 database, generated administrator credentials and three persistent volumes, published over HTTPS behind a gateway that blocks public sign-up, so uploaded originals, users and search state survive an xCloud Restart.

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What is Readur?

Readur is a modern document management system for organising, processing and finding digital documents. A self-hosted Readur lets you upload PDFs, images, text and Office files, extracts their text with Tesseract OCR, and lets you search the contents with PostgreSQL full-text search in simple, phrase, fuzzy and boolean modes, instead of keeping them in a hosted store such as Google Drive. It is written in Rust and MIT licensed.

On xCloud the install runs Readur 2.9.2 with a private PostgreSQL 18 database and an nginx gateway, all pinned by digest. Three volumes hold the state: readur_uploads for originals, readur_watch for the watch folder and readur_database for PostgreSQL. xCloud generates the administrator credentials, and the gateway blocks public self-registration. Uploads are limited to 50 MB per file.

From Sign-Up to Your First Searchable Document In Just 3 Easy Steps

A Readur stack normally means an application container, a PostgreSQL database, a JWT secret, an admin bootstrap, three volumes, a reverse proxy and a certificate. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account, pick Readur from the OneClick catalog and choose a domain. There are no install fields: xCloud generates the administrator username and password.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We bring up the pinned Readur image and a private PostgreSQL 18 database with no customer-facing port, mount the readur_uploads, readur_watch and readur_database volumes, generate the JWT signing secret and publish the app over HTTPS on your domain.
Step 03
Upload And Search
Save the credentials xCloud shows you, sign in as the administrator and change the password inside Readur. Then upload a document, wait for OCR to finish, search for a phrase from it and download the original.

Everything Readur Does, On Your Own Server

The full Readur document workspace — uploads, OCR, search and organization — with its database and files on a server you control.

Upload And Keep Originals
Upload PDFs, images, text files and Word documents (the types this template allows); Readur keeps the original file alongside the extracted text so you can download it again.
OCR Text Extraction
Readur extracts searchable text with Tesseract and parses Office documents, including multi-language OCR for mixed-language archives.
Full-Text Search Modes
Search the contents of your documents with PostgreSQL full-text search in simple, phrase, fuzzy and boolean modes.
Labels For Organization
Tag documents with colour-coded, hierarchical labels so a growing archive stays easy to filter.
Watch Folder Ingestion
Files dropped into the watch folder are picked up for processing, and the readur_watch volume keeps them across restarts.
Roles And Built-In API Docs
Admin and User roles control who can do what, and the interactive Swagger UI is reachable from the profile menu.

Everything You Need To Run Your Document Library 24/7

Managed hosting for Readur, so the parts that keep it online are not your problem.

Readur 2.9.2 deployed instantly
Official image pinned by digest
Admin credentials and JWT secret generated
Private PostgreSQL 18 database
Free SSL certificate
Server backups and snapshots
Server security updates included
30+ server locations
Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With Readur

Make scanned paperwork searchable
Turn scans and photographed pages into text you can search, instead of opening files one by one to find a phrase.
Keep a private archive for a small office
Give a team one sign-in-protected place for contracts, letters and reports, with originals kept on a server you own.
Organize research material
Label papers, notes and exports with colour-coded, hierarchical labels so a growing pile of sources can be filtered rather than scrolled.
Ingest files from a drop folder
Point scans or exports at the watch folder and let Readur pick them up for OCR without uploading each one by hand.

Readur Screenshots

Readur search page showing a full-text match for a unique phrase inside an uploaded document, with filters and display settings

Readur vs Alternatives

Paperless-ngx: In a Readur vs Paperless-ngx comparison, Paperless-ngx has its own OneClick page. Its catalogue entry describes scanning, OCR and indexing into a searchable archive with automatic tagging and filing.
Mayan EDMS: Mayan EDMS has its own OneClick page. Readur concentrates on uploading documents, OCR with Tesseract, labels and PostgreSQL full-text search.
Google Drive: Google Drive is a hosted file store with search, and your files live on Google's servers. Readur keeps originals and the extracted text on a server you control, with OCR built in.
Nextcloud: Nextcloud has its own OneClick page. It is a broader file sync and collaboration platform where document search is one part; Readur concentrates on OCR and retrieval.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

Dedicated Cloud VPS sizes, pre-configured for Readur hosting. Pick the one that fits, and resize any time.

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Cloud VPS 16 GB

More headroom for a large library and heavier OCR batches.

$59.99per month

16 GB RAM
6 vCPU cores
200 GB NVMe SSD
30 TB
Unlimited

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Every size is a dedicated Cloud VPS we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Billed monthly with no lock-in — delete the server and the unused balance comes back to your account. Readur itself is licensed by its maintainers under MIT.

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Ready To Search Your Documents Privately?

Readur on xCloud runs on a dedicated Cloud VPS that we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Deploy faster. Own the server. Stay in control.

Fast Provisioning
Deploy faster using an xCloud Managed Server built with optimized stacks and high-speed SSDs.
Enterprise-grade security
Protect your infrastructure with a free SSL certificate and more advanced security features at no additional cost.
Intuitive Control Panel
From Server creation to application deployment, everything can be managed from our intuitive control panel.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns you may have.

Can you self-host Readur with Docker?

Yes, and this template is Readur Docker hosting without the setup. Upstream ships Docker images; here xCloud runs the pinned 2.9.2 image with a private PostgreSQL 18 database and an nginx gateway, three named volumes, generated credentials and HTTPS.

How much RAM does Readur need?

The template asks for 2048 MB of RAM, 2 CPU cores and 10 GB of disk, plus room for your documents and OCR working space. The 6 GB plan is the entry rung here, which helps while several files are being OCRed.

How do I sign in to Readur?

Use the generated administrator username and password from the protected credentials after installation, then change the password in Readur's account settings. Readur creates the administrator only when it is absent, so later restarts and environment edits do not overwrite your new password.

Can anyone register on my Readur server?

No. The nginx gateway blocks public self-registration, because upstream 2.9.2 exposes an unauthenticated register endpoint that accepts a client-supplied role. People you want to add need an account created for them by an administrator, which keeps strangers from uploading to your library.

Which file types can I upload to Readur?

Upstream lists PDFs, images, text files and Office documents. The template allows pdf, txt, doc, docx, png, jpg and jpeg, with a 50 MB per-file limit. A multi-language OCR mode handles documents in more than one language.

Does Readur support OIDC single sign-on?

Upstream lists OIDC and SSO, along with WebDAV and S3-compatible sources, but this template configures local storage volumes and local administrator sign-in only. Set up anything else from the exact-release upstream documentation and verify it before relying on it.

What should I back up on a Readur server?

Back up all three volumes, readur_uploads, readur_watch and readur_database, at one consistent point, plus the JWT secret. Quiesce application writes and take a PostgreSQL-native backup rather than copying live database files, and test a restore before you rely on the copies.

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How do I upgrade Readur?

Readur 2.9.2 and PostgreSQL 18 stay pinned until you adopt a newer template version. Read the Readur and PostgreSQL migration notes, take and test a coordinated backup, and verify sign-in and search afterwards. Existing sites are not upgraded automatically.

Is Readur free?

Yes. MIT licensing means the software itself is free to run. The recurring cost is the dedicated Cloud VPS, which also needs disk for the documents you keep and the text OCR extracts from them.

Why must the Readur JWT secret stay stable?

Changing it invalidates active sessions and signs everyone out. Keep it private and store it with your backups, so a restored install uses the same signing secret. If you rotate it on purpose, expect every user to sign in again before working with documents.

Is there a Readur cloud service?

Not through this page. Readur cloud hosting here means your own copy runs on a Cloud VPS that xCloud provisions, with documents and the search index on volumes you own and a database that is never exposed publicly.

Can I cancel anytime?

Yes. There is no lock-in — cancel any time. Hosting is billed monthly and charged for what you actually use, so when you delete the server the unused balance is refunded to your account, less up to 10% in payment-processing fees.