Teedy – lightweight document management system

Teedy is a lightweight document management system for individuals and businesses.

It provides a browser-based environment for storing, organising, searching and sharing documents while keeping metadata and access controls alongside the files themselves. Its search facilities extend beyond filenames and metadata by extracting text from supported documents, while OCR can make scanned material searchable. Teedy also incorporates workflow, versioning, permissions and auditing features, making it useful for structured document handling as well as personal archiving.

This is free and open source software.

Key Features

• Responsive web interface designed for desktop and mobile browsers.
• Supports image, PDF, ODT, DOCX, PPTX and video files.
• Optical character recognition can extract searchable text from scanned documents.
• Full-text search provides suggestions and highlighted search matches across supported document formats.
• Stores Dublin Core metadata and lets users define additional custom metadata fields.
• Workflow system supports structured document-processing and approval procedures.
• Uses 256-bit AES encryption for files stored by the application.
• Maintains file versions so previous revisions of documents can be retained.
• Nested tags provide hierarchical organisation without restricting documents to a single folder structure.
• Imports EML email messages and can automatically scan an inbox for new documents.
• LDAP authentication is available for integration with existing directory services.
• User and group permissions control access to documents and application functions.
• Supports hierarchical groups, two-factor authentication, per-user storage quotas and an audit log.
• Users can add comments to documents and share documents externally using generated URLs.
• RESTful Web API and webhooks provide integration and automation options for external applications.
• Includes a bulk file importer that can operate in single-file or scanning modes.
• A dedicated Android client provides another way to access managed documents.
• Supports a large document collection; the developers report testing the system with one million documents.

Website: github.com/sismics/docs
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Developer: Sismics
License: GNU General Public License v2.0

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