Papermerge VS stapler

Compare Papermerge vs stapler and see what are their differences.

Papermerge

Open Source Document Management System for Digital Archives (Scanned Documents) (by ciur)

stapler

A small utility making use of the pypdf library to provide a (somewhat) lighter alternative to pdftk (by hellerbarde)
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Papermerge stapler
33 3
2,325 281
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6.1 0.0
17 days ago 10 months ago
Python Python
Apache License 2.0 GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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Papermerge

Posts with mentions or reviews of Papermerge. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-15.

stapler

Posts with mentions or reviews of stapler. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-04.
  • Google reverses 5M file limit in Google Drive
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Apr 2023
    ... That happens to be a Python alternative to PDFtk[1]. It’s been kind of abandoned in recent years, though.

    Also, in the early times of OLE 2.0 MS Office included a utility called Binder that could put several Office documents in a single file and edit them using a common interface. Nothing came of it.

    [1] https://github.com/hellerbarde/stapler

  • Papermerge (almost) 2.0 is out!
    8 projects | /r/selfhosted | 25 Feb 2021
    In UI you can cut pages from one document and pasted those pages into another document. Afterwards you can sort/reorder pages. Up until version 2.0 Papermerge was using pdftk for "cut" and "paste" operations. Because of pdftk licensing (plus its dependency on java) - it was replaced by stapler which is pure python equivalent of pdftk. Stapler is BSD licensed.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Papermerge and stapler you can also consider the following projects:

Paperless-ng - A supercharged version of paperless: scan, index and archive all your physical documents

paperless-ngx - A community-supported supercharged version of paperless: scan, index and archive all your physical documents

pdf2docx - Open source Python library for converting PDF to DOCX.

Docspell - Assist in organizing your piles of documents, resulting from scanners, e-mails and other sources with miminal effort.

OCRmyPDF - OCRmyPDF adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched

Paperless - Scan, index, and archive all of your paper documents

Mayan EDMS - Free Open Source Document Management System (mirror, no pull request or issues)

pagelabels-py - Python library to manipulate PDF page labels

Teedy - Lightweight document management system packed with all the features you can expect from big expensive solutions

pdftools - A collection of PDF command line tools and wrappers for Linux