Integration tests require a running Postgres instance (and, optionally, Quickwit for OCR indexing). The repository includes a lightweight compose file for local runs:

docker compose -f docker-compose.test.yml up -d
export TEST_DATABASE_URL=postgres://paperless:paperless_test@localhost:5433/paperless_test
# optional, enables Quickwit indexing jobs
export QUICKWIT_ENDPOINT=http://localhost:7280
export QUICKWIT_INDEX=documents
cargo test

Stop the database when you are done:

docker compose -f docker-compose.test.yml down

The compose service uses tmpfs storage, giving each test run a clean database.

Runtime Dependencies

ocrmypdf (optional but recommended): Used by the OCR worker to extract text from PDFs when no embedded text layer is available. Ensure it is installed and available on the worker hosts if OCR is desired.
Quickwit (optional): The Quickwit indexer is used to ingest extracted text for search. Set QUICKWIT_ENDPOINT and QUICKWIT_INDEX in the environment when running workers if you want indexing jobs to run. The local compose file starts a Quickwit instance on http://localhost:7280 and seeds the documents index automatically.