Papermerge is a web-based document management system designed for digital archives and scanned paperwork.
It helps you store, organize, index, and retrieve documents such as PDFs and image scans through a browser-based interface that’s aimed at making long-term document storage easier and more manageable.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Extracts text from scanned documents.
- Offers full text search to quickly locate document contents.
- Provides hierarchical folders for document organization.
- Lets you assign colored tags to documents and folders.
- Includes document versioning.
- Supports document types and custom metadata fields.
- Supports multiple users, groups, and shared documents or folders.
- Includes a modern web interface with a desktop-like workflow.
- Offers an OpenAPI-compliant REST API.
Website: github.com/ciur/papermerge
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Developer: Eugen Ciur
License: Apache License 2.0
Papermerge is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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