Top 7 document-management-system Open-Source Projects

paperless-ngx

212 16,754 9.9 Python

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

Project mention: I accidentally built a meme search engine | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-13

I steered a friend towards Paperless (and away from an LLM solution) as a way of searching/accessing GBs of architectural PDFs recently - so far, it’s apparently working well for them.
https://github.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx

Docspell

33 1,442 9.5 Elm

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

Project mention: Read-only document management recommendations (no paperless-*) | /r/selfhosted | 2023-06-04

Maybe Docspell?

InfluxDB

www.influxdata.com sponsored

Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
Mayan EDMS

34 552 0.0 Python

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

Project mention: A Clutter-Free Life: Going Paperless with Paperless-Ngx | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-10-07

I use MayanEDMS personally, and have for the past five or so years. It's complex but does what it says on the tin.
https://www.mayan-edms.com/

papermerge-core

3 246 9.2 Python

In this repository is the source code of Papermerge DMS backend core, REST API server, and frontend UI
swift-paperless

1 172 9.4 Swift

Native iOS app for interacting with a Paperless-ngx installation to manage documents

Project mention: Paperless-Ngx v2.0.0 | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-11-29

- https://github.com/paulgessinger/swift-paperless (iOS only, nicer interface)

formkiq-core

50 91 6.6 Java

A full-featured Document Layer for your application, providing the functionality of a flexible document management system, including storage, discovery, processing, and retrieval. Deploys directly into your Amazon Web Services Cloud. 🌟 Star to support our work!

Project mention: A Clutter-Free Life: Going Paperless with Paperless-Ngx | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-10-07

We may want to get in touch with each other. We have an Open Core document management platform that runs in AWS; I'm not sure about your roadmap, but there may be something there that's of use: https://github.com/formkiq/formkiq-core

papermerge-cli

1 4 6.0 Python

Papermerge DMS command line utility
WorkOS

workos.com sponsored

The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).