Overview of Papermerge DMS
Introduction
Papermerge DMS is an open-source document management system designed for digital archives. It allows users to store, organize, and index scanned documents in various formats, including PDF, JPEG, and TIFF.
Key Features
Search and Indexing
- Full-text search, tags, and metadata-based search for instant access to relevant information
User Interface
- Modern, easy-to-use, and intuitive web-based interface
- Beautiful design for a pleasant user experience
Document Management
- Versioning: retains original uploaded version and creates new versions for each operation (e.g., OCR, editing)
- Custom Fields: user-defined attributes attached to documents or categories (e.g., "price", "date of issue", "issuer")
- Categories: categorize documents by type (e.g., "Receipt", "Invoice", "Contract")
Page Management
- Reorder, rotate, and extract pages within documents to fix scanning process errors
OCR
- Performs optical character recognition on documents, adding searchable and selectable text
- Supports over 100 languages using the open-source Tesseract engine
Licensing and Community
- Open-source with an Apache 2.0 license
- Available on Github with community support and discussions