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. xCloud runs the pinned Readur 2.9.2 image beside a private PostgreSQL 18 database, generates the administrator username and password, mounts three persistent volumes and publishes the app over HTTPS — so uploaded originals, users and search state survive an xCloud Restart.

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What is Readur?

Readur is an open-source, MIT-licensed document management system. You upload files, it extracts their text with OCR, and you find them again with full-text search, labels and watched folders — all from a web interface backed by a Rust server and PostgreSQL.

On xCloud the original files, the watch folder and the database each live on their own persistent volume, so a restart does not lose the library.

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. Keep the generated administrator username and password, or enter supported replacements.
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
Drag in PDFs, images, text files and Office documents; 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 a single 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 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: A long-established document archive focused on scanning, tagging and filing paper; Readur is a newer Rust-based system with several full-text search modes.
Mayan EDMS: An electronic document management system built around workflows and metadata, aimed at heavier records management than Readur's upload, OCR and search flow.
Google Drive: A hosted SaaS file store with search; your files live on Google's servers rather than a VPS you control.
Nextcloud: 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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Priced per connected server, so your rate adjusts automatically as you add or remove servers. You pay your own provider for the server itself.

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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.

How do I sign in after deployment?

Use the administrator username and generated password shown in the protected credentials after installation, then change the password from Readur's account settings.

Will an environment change reset my password later?

No. Readur creates the administrator only when it is absent, so after you change the password in Readur, later restarts or environment edits do not overwrite it.

What survives an xCloud Restart?

Uploaded originals, watched files, users, metadata, PostgreSQL data and OCR and search state persist in the three named volumes: readur_uploads, readur_watch and readur_database.

Is the database exposed to the internet?

No. PostgreSQL 18 runs as a private service with no customer-facing host port, and Readur's port 8000 is bound to localhost and published through xCloud-managed HTTPS.

What should I back up?

All three volumes — readur_uploads, readur_watch and readur_database — at one consistent point, plus the JWT secret. Quiesce application writes, take a PostgreSQL-native backup, copy the other two volumes from the same window and test the restore on an isolated install.

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Why must the JWT secret stay stable?

Changing it invalidates active sessions. Keep it private and store it with your backups so a restored install keeps working sessions.

Does xCloud automatically back up or update Readur?

No. The template pins Readur 2.9.2 by immutable digest; new installs use the pinned release and existing sites are not upgraded automatically. Before upgrading, read the Readur and PostgreSQL migration notes, take and test a coordinated backup, then change each version and digest together. Database migrations can make a data downgrade unsafe, so roll back only with a backup compatible with the previous images.

What are the server requirements, and why does this page sell 6 GB?

The template asks for 2 CPU cores, 2048 MB of RAM and 10 GB of disk, plus room for your documents and OCR working space. This page sells the 6 GB tier as the entry rung, with real headroom above that baseline.

Which file types can I upload?

Upstream lists PDFs, images, text files and Office documents. Text is extracted with OCR, and a multi-language mode handles documents in more than one language.

Does this template set up SSO or S3 storage?

No. Upstream supports other sources and OIDC, but this template configures local storage volumes and local administrator sign-in only.

Is xCloud officially partnered with Readur?

No. No official partnership or endorsement between xCloud and the Readur project has been verified. This is a deployment and server-management option for the open-source Readur project, licensed under MIT.

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.