{"id":35738,"date":"2023-05-31T10:55:42","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T10:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/?p=35738"},"modified":"2023-06-19T13:21:57","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T13:21:57","slug":"list-of-top-free-open-source-self-hosted-application-for-document-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/list-of-top-free-open-source-self-hosted-application-for-document-management\/","title":{"rendered":"List of Top Free Open Source &amp; Self Hosted Application for Document Management"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A\u00a0document management system\u00a0(DMS) is a system used to receive, track, manage and store documents and reduce paper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/docat-org\/docat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DOCAT<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; Host your docs. Simple. Versioned. 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It provides a lot of extra features for students and research groups both in industry and academia. <code>GPL-3.0<\/code>\u00a0<code>PHP<\/code><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mayan-edms.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mayan EDMS<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; Free Open Source Electronic Document Management System. An electronic vault for your documents with preview generation, OCR, and automatic categorization among other features. <code>Apache-2.0<\/code>\u00a0<code>Python<\/code><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.paperless-ngx.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paperless-ngx<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; A fork of paperless, adding a new interface and many other changes under the hood. 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