Adds the ability for the user to configure the number of items per page.

Specifically requested by @ekw here:
https://github.com/danielquinn/paperless/issues/180#issuecomment-271665682

paperless.conf.example

@@ -65,8 +65,8 @@ PAPERLESS_SHARED_SECRET=""
 # cases it has proven useful to configure a lesser value.
 # This setting has a high impact on the physical size of tmp page files,
 # the speed of document conversion, and can affect the accuracy of OCR
-# results. Individual results can vary and this setting should be tested 
-# thoroughly against the documents you are importing to see if it has any 
+# results. Individual results can vary and this setting should be tested
+# thoroughly against the documents you are importing to see if it has any
 # impacts either negative or positive. Testing on limited document sets has
 # shown a setting of 200 can cut the size of tmp files by 1/3, and speed up
 # conversion by up to 4x with little impact to OCR accuracy.
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ PAPERLESS_SHARED_SECRET=""
 # the web for "MAGICK_TMPDIR".
 #PAPERLESS_CONVERT_TMPDIR=/var/tmp/paperless
 
-# You can specify where you want the SQLite database to be stored instead of 
+# You can specify where you want the SQLite database to be stored instead of
 # the default location
 #PAPERLESS_DBDIR=/path/to/database/file
 
@@ -112,3 +112,7 @@ PAPERLESS_SHARED_SECRET=""
 # documents.  It should be a 3-letter language code consistent with ISO 639.
 #PAPERLESS_OCR_LANGUAGE=eng
 
+# The number of items on each page in the web UI.  This value must be a
+# positive integer, but if you don't define one in paperless.conf, a default of
+# 100 will be used.
+#PAPERLESS_LIST_PER_PAGE=100

src/documents/admin.py

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+from django.conf import settings
 from django.contrib import admin
 from django.contrib.auth.models import User, Group
 from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse
@@ -31,21 +32,25 @@ class MonthListFilter(admin.SimpleListFilter):
         return queryset.filter(created__year=year, created__month=month)
 
 
-class CorrespondentAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
+class CommonAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
+    list_per_page = settings.PAPERLESS_LIST_PER_PAGE
+
+
+class CorrespondentAdmin(CommonAdmin):
 
     list_display = ("name", "match", "matching_algorithm")
     list_filter = ("matching_algorithm",)
     list_editable = ("match", "matching_algorithm")
 
 
-class TagAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
+class TagAdmin(CommonAdmin):
 
     list_display = ("name", "colour", "match", "matching_algorithm")
     list_filter = ("colour", "matching_algorithm")
     list_editable = ("colour", "match", "matching_algorithm")
 
 
-class DocumentAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
+class DocumentAdmin(CommonAdmin):
 
     class Media:
         css = {
@@ -119,7 +124,7 @@ class DocumentAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
         return "<{} {}/>".format(kind, " ".join(attributes))
 
 
-class LogAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
+class LogAdmin(CommonAdmin):
 
     list_display = ("created", "message", "level",)
     list_filter = ("level", "created",)

src/paperless/settings.py

@@ -249,3 +249,8 @@ SHARED_SECRET = os.getenv("PAPERLESS_SHARED_SECRET", "")
 # Trigger a script after every successful document consumption?
 PRE_CONSUME_SCRIPT = os.getenv("PAPERLESS_PRE_CONSUME_SCRIPT")
 POST_CONSUME_SCRIPT = os.getenv("PAPERLESS_POST_CONSUME_SCRIPT")
+
+# The number of items on each page in the web UI.  This value must be a
+# positive integer, but if you don't define one in paperless.conf, a default of
+# 100 will be used.
+PAPERLESS_LIST_PER_PAGE = int(os.getenv("PAPERLESS_LIST_PER_PAGE", 100))