Description

Papermerge DMS is an open source document management system built for digital archives. It gives you a desktop-like web interface for scanned documents, with folders, coloured tags, versioning and OCR-driven full-text search.

Key Features

• Desktop-like dual-panel web interface with drag and drop
• OCR of scanned documents, including a downloadable OCR text overlay
• Full-text search across the archive
• Hierarchical folders, coloured tags, document types and custom fields
• Document versioning and page management (delete, reorder, rotate, merge, extract)
• Multi-user with group ownership and granular permissions
• Single sign-on (SSO) via OIDC and an OpenAPI-compliant REST API
• Supports PDF, TIFF, JPEG and PNG documents

Why Use It

Papermerge targets long-term storage: document versioning, custom metadata and OCR text overlay make it a solid place to keep scans you may need years from now.

Use Cases

• Long-term storage of scanned documents
• Tax, invoice and receipt archives
• Shared document archive for teams and groups

Related

Also see Docspell and Paperless-ngx.

Papermerge OSS is the community self-hosted edition; Papermerge Cloud is a separate hosted product.