diff --git a/pkgs/applications/office/paperless-ngx/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/office/paperless-ngx/default.nix
index a60f926278ef..3ffc7f65caaf 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/office/paperless-ngx/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/office/paperless-ngx/default.nix
@@ -17,13 +17,13 @@
 }:
 
 let
-  version = "1.14.4";
+  version = "1.16.1";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "paperless-ngx";
     repo = "paperless-ngx";
     rev = "refs/tags/v${version}";
-    hash = "sha256-9+8XqENpSdsND6g59oJkVoCe5tJ1Pwo8HD7Cszv/t7o=";
+    hash = "sha256-KmCUViKyjS/1+PL48TOeamYjSkg4J6ywvHgcIhNtVss=";
   };
 
   # Use specific package versions required by paperless-ngx
@@ -31,38 +31,15 @@ let
     packageOverrides = self: super: {
       django = super.django_4;
 
-      aioredis = super.aioredis.overridePythonAttrs (oldAttrs: rec {
-        version = "1.3.1";
+      # Paperless tests fail with tika-client==0.1.0. Upstream WIP fix is at
+      # https://github.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx/pull/3617
+      tika-client = super.tika-client.overridePythonAttrs (oldAttrs: rec {
+        version = "0.0.3";
         src = oldAttrs.src.override {
-          inherit version;
-          sha256 = "0fi7jd5hlx8cnv1m97kv9hc4ih4l8v15wzkqwsp73is4n0qazy0m";
-        };
-      });
-
-      channels = super.channels.overridePythonAttrs (oldAttrs: rec {
-        version = "3.0.5";
-        pname = "channels";
-        src = fetchFromGitHub {
-          owner = "django";
-          repo = pname;
           rev = version;
-          sha256 = "sha256-bKrPLbD9zG7DwIYBst1cb+zkDsM8B02wh3D80iortpw=";
-        };
-        propagatedBuildInputs = oldAttrs.propagatedBuildInputs ++ [ self.daphne ];
-        pytestFlagsArray = [ "--asyncio-mode=auto" ];
-      });
-
-      daphne = super.daphne.overridePythonAttrs (oldAttrs: rec {
-        version = "3.0.2";
-        pname = "daphne";
-        src = fetchFromGitHub {
-          owner = "django";
-          repo = pname;
-          rev = version;
-          hash = "sha256-KWkMV4L7bA2Eo/u4GGif6lmDNrZAzvYyDiyzyWt9LeI=";
+          hash = "sha256-IKPTQ4n/j/W292F0JpSEUC0X8E1tr961WEcNCN5ymoU=";
         };
       });
-
     };
   };
 
@@ -82,7 +59,7 @@ let
     pname = "paperless-ngx-frontend";
     inherit version src;
 
-    npmDepsHash = "sha256-XTk4DpQAU/rI2XoUvLm0KVjuXFWdz2wb2EAg8EBVEdU=";
+    npmDepsHash = "sha256-GDdHlrU1x/uxDy4mwK7G4F9b7AJat3nhQESUpfDdKeE=";
 
     nativeBuildInputs = [
       python3
@@ -118,7 +95,6 @@ python.pkgs.buildPythonApplication rec {
   ];
 
   propagatedBuildInputs = with python.pkgs; [
-    aioredis
     amqp
     anyio
     asgiref
@@ -142,7 +118,6 @@ python.pkgs.buildPythonApplication rec {
     concurrent-log-handler
     constantly
     cryptography
-    daphne
     dateparser
     django-celery-results
     django-cors-headers
@@ -150,7 +125,6 @@ python.pkgs.buildPythonApplication rec {
     django-extensions
     django-filter
     django-guardian
-    django-ipware
     django
     djangorestframework-guardian2
     djangorestframework
@@ -174,12 +148,10 @@ python.pkgs.buildPythonApplication rec {
     msgpack
     mysqlclient
     nltk
-    numpy
     ocrmypdf
     packaging
     pathvalidate
     pdf2image
-    pdfminer-six
     pikepdf
     pillow
     pluggy
@@ -192,6 +164,7 @@ python.pkgs.buildPythonApplication rec {
     pyopenssl
     python-dateutil
     python-dotenv
+    python-ipware
     python-gnupg
     python-magic
     pytz
@@ -209,7 +182,7 @@ python.pkgs.buildPythonApplication rec {
     sniffio
     sqlparse
     threadpoolctl
-    tika
+    tika-client
     tornado
     tqdm
     twisted
@@ -266,12 +239,16 @@ python.pkgs.buildPythonApplication rec {
   '';
 
   nativeCheckInputs = with python.pkgs; [
+    daphne
     factory_boy
     imagehash
+    pdfminer-six
     pytest-django
     pytest-env
+    pytest-httpx
     pytest-xdist
     pytestCheckHook
+    reportlab
   ];
 
   pytestFlagsArray = [