A community-supported supercharged document management system: scan, index and archive all your documents
OCR, tagging, matching rules and full-text search for a document archive, without approval workflows or ERP integrations.
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DocuWare
Document management and workflow software, hosted or on premises, for capturing, indexing, archiving and approving business documents. A closed product from DocuWare.
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| Tool | Fit | Stars | Licence | Terms | Self-hosted | Language | Latest | Last push |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paperless-ngx | Partial | 46k | GPL-3.0 | Open source | Yes | Python | v3.3.0 | 2026-10-06 |
| Teedy | Partial | 2.6k | GPL-2.0 | Open source | Yes | JavaScript | v1.11 | 2026-08-17 |
| Papermerge | Partial | 543 | Apache-2.0 | Open source | Yes | Python | 3.5.3 | 2026-10-05 |
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Lightweight document management system packed with all the features you can expect from big expensive solutions
Permissions, approval workflows, file versioning and an audit log for a team archive, without invoice processing or ERP integrations.
- Language
- JavaScript
- Licence
- GPL-2.0
- Stars
- 2.6k
- Latest
- v1.11
- Last push
- 2026-08-17
Papermerge OSS
Document archive with OCR, tags, folders and versions, without approval workflows.
- Language
- Python
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Stars
- 543
- Latest
- 3.5.3
- Last push
- 2026-10-05
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