List of Top Free Open Source & Self Hosted Application for Document Management

A document management system (DMS) is a system used to receive, track, manage and store documents and reduce paper.

• DOCAT – Host your docs. Simple. Versioned. Fancy. MIT Python/Docker
• Docspell – Auto-tagging document organizer and archive. GPL-3.0 Scala/Java
• EveryDocs – A simple Document Management System for private use with basic functionality to organize your documents digitally. GPL-3.0 Ruby
• I, Librarian – I, Librarian can organize PDF papers and office documents. It provides a lot of extra features for students and research groups both in industry and academia. GPL-3.0 PHP
• Mayan EDMS – Free Open Source Electronic Document Management System. An electronic vault for your documents with preview generation, OCR, and automatic categorization among other features. Apache-2.0 Python
• Paperless-ngx – A fork of paperless, adding a new interface and many other changes under the hood. Scan, index, and archive all of your paper documents. GPL-3.0 Python
• Papermerge – Open Source Document Management System focused on scanned documents (electronic archives). Features file browsing in similar way to dropbox/google drive. OCR, full text search, text overlay/selection. Apache-2.0 Python
• paper{s}pace – Small web application to manage all your offline documents. Provides a searchable storage for your documents and reminds you of upcoming tasks. MIT Java
• Stirling-PDF – Local hosted web application that allows you to perform various operations on PDF files, such as merging, splitting, file conversions and OCR. Apache-2.0 Docker/Java
• Teedy – Lightweight document management system packed with all the features you can expect from big expensive solutions (Ex SismicsDocs). GPL-2.0 Docker/Java

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