Document management for private usage [closed]

Question

For private usage I am looking for a simple document management system (NOT a Web CMS). The requirements are relatively simple :

• Web based
• Free, prefer open-source
• Able to store electronic documents (Word, PDF, ...) and scanned paper documents (in PDF/jpeg/whatever image format)
• OCR support
• Along with some metadata : name of the doc, project/department to which it belongs, author, date, place, some identifiying code, a short description,...
• Using different storage (NAS, Dropbox, WebDAV)

Optional but nice

• Versioning
• Indexing/search inside the word/pdf/text/... documents

I've tried doo for my mac, but it's still to buggy ...

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

You could run Alfresco or Nuxeo locally. Nuxeo has an OCR module that uses the tesseract OCR engine https://github.com/nuxeo/nuxeo-platform-ocr. They both support all of your list including the optional part.

However, these two systems are complex, and require a fair degree of configuration – hence, perhaps couldn't be described as 'simple'.

If you want something simple for Mac OS X, you could try the commercial offering called Paperless https://www.marinersoftware.com/products/paperless/. I haven't used the latest version, but it looks like they've added OCR support. This doesn't meet the free preference though!