Open Source Python Document Management Systems

Papermerge is an open source document management system (DMS) primarily designed for archiving and retrieving your digital documents. Instead of having piles of paper documents all over your desk, office or drawers - you can quickly scan them and configure your scanner to directly upload to Papermerge DMS. Store, organize and index scanned documents in PDF, JPEG and TIFF formats. Instantly find relevant information using full text, tags and metadata-based search. Papermerge is free and open-source software which means that transparency is the core value of our software development. Source code can be reviewed and improved by anyone from anywhere. Papermerge supports multiple users. Each user can be assigned different permissions to perform only a specific kind of action e.g. view only documents from a specific folder. OCR technology is vital part of Papermerge. It extracts text information from scanned documents, PDF, JPEG, TIFF files.

COAR-DMS is document management system for 32/64 bit. linux. Acts as library, server and tools. Library features: - storage management, free pages recycling - transaction log - indexing: full text, tags, metadata, document attributes - inverted index - versioning, collaboration - document trees, trees versionning - folders - plugins for auth (PAM,LDAP), db, file types plugins - tags - metadata (key value pairs) - object level security, folders documents ACL, - unix like security (rwx), special authorities - from thousands to tens of billions of documents - dashboard (working copies, new documents) - electronic signs - search statement, syntax like SQL - multithreaded, multiprocess library, Servers: - native HTTP server (libmicrohttp) - SOAP server - WebDAV(planed) - Indexer Python API WebUI GWT, JSP, SOAP-API