OpenKM is an open source document management system that provides a web interface for managing arbitrary files. The software allows easy management of documents, users, roles, and finding documents and records.
The OpenKM architecture is based on the JBoss Application Server, GWT (Google Web Toolkit – Ajax), Lucene, Apache Jackrabbit, and Java J2EE.
It can be used by large companies as well as by the small ones, as a useful tool in processing knowledge management, providing a more flexible and cost effective alternative to other proprietary applications.
Features include:
- Web-based client: you can access your document from anywhere.
- Automatic key extraction.
- Fast and enhanced user experience using AJAX.
- Web 2.0.
- Drag and drop (files or folders) from the desktop.
- Document control version.
- LDAP or DBMS integration.
- Webservices API.
- Store on any DBMS.
- WebDAV.
- Workflow.
- OCR – direct scanning.
- Unlimited OCR.
- Reads binary, gray scale or color images.
- Extraction of text, dictionaries support in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish and Dutch.
- Searching for data in TIFF.
- Integral with most Open Source and Commercial OCR engines.
- Preview of multimedia files.
- Reports.
- Automatic key extraction.
- Mass document upload using ZIP files.
- Download folder as ZIP.
- Lock / Unlock documents.
- Bookmarks administration.
- Select user home folder.
- Support for document templates.
- Personal documents for each user.
- User trash where deleted documents are stored.
- Document event notification by mail (when a change is done).
- Send document link by email.
- Send document attachment by mail.
- Notes on documents and folders.
- Extract document metadata.
- Unique document identifier.
- User document tags.
- Thesaurus tags.
- Tag cloud view.
- Classification categories.
- Stapling (documents / folders / mails linking).
- Integrated TWAIN scanner.
- OCR integration.
- Microsoft Office AddIns:
- MS Add-in support from version 2000 until 2013.
- MS Outlook Add-in.
- MS Word Add-in.
- MS Excel Add-in.
- MS PowerPoint Add-in.
- OpenOffice Add On.
- AutoCAD preview.
- Electronic invoicing:
- Invoice extracting in “XML” format.
- Invoice validation by digital signature.
- Downloading the E-invoice in PDF format.
- Sending notifications.
- Security:
- Plug-in authentication based on JAAS.
- Support for LDAP, Active Directory, Database, etc. (by configuration file). By default OpenKM comes with a embeded database.
- Granular acces control list.
- Flexible ACL inheritage option.
- Security by user or role.
- Permissions in documents and folders.
- Register detailed user activity.
- Support for SSL communications.
- Search engine:
- Search by document content, keywords, modification date, author and document type.
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- Automatically index uploaded documents: Text, HTML, RTF, XML, PDF, OpenOffice.org, MS Office, MS Office 2007, MS PowerPoint, JPEG EXIF, MP3 ID3. It can also index TIFF files configuring an OCR engine.
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- Search by synonyms.
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- Search results ordered by relevance.
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- Search using Property Groups.
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- Save queries.
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- Advanced search using XPath and SQL.
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- Users news (push queries).
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- Search under hicherical folder structure.
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- Can select what search, folders, documents or mails.
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- User content tags to locate documents.
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- Metadata content to locate documents.
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- Simple and advanced search view.
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- Sort search results with multiple criteria.
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- Download or go to taxonomy document ubication in result search view.
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- Stemming, stopwords support and synonyms support.
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- What’s new push notification service ( based on user saved queries ).
- Supports many languages including German, Arabic, Catalan, Bosnian, Chinese Simple, Chinese Traditional, Czech, Euskera, Dutch, English, Farsi, French, Galician, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish and Vietnamese.
Website: www.openkm.com
Support: Knowledge Center
Developer: OpenKM
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
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