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Which simple document management system? [closed]

For a small-medium sized NGO with little money, I am looking for a simple document management system (NOT a Web CMS). The requirements are relatively simple :

  • Web based
  • Free (as in free beer) or very cheap, and better if it is open-source too
  • Able to store electronic documents (Word, PDF, ...) and scanned paper documents (in PDF/jpeg/whatever image format)
  • Along with some metadata : name of the doc, project/department to which it belongs, author, date, place, some identifiying code, a short description,...

Optional but nice :

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

From my research on the net and other threads on SO, I am down to these 3 products :

  • KnowledgeTree (installed locally, not the SAAS)
  • Alfresco
  • Nuxeo DM

With a preference for KT, the other 2 feelinbg like overkill for our simple requirements. I am also looking at MS Sharepoint Foundation (ex-Sharepoint Services) but it would mean buying a Windows Server license which I don't think they will want to.

Can somebody give me some feedback about these products, especially KT ? Which one would you choose (or avoid) ? Is there any other suitable solution that I missed ? Any info welcome !

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Pierre Henry Avatar asked Sep 23 '10 16:09

Pierre Henry


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1 Answers

sorry, i don't know KT but is installed and used Alfresco some time ago at my old job. it's the pure hell to install, but if you got it running, its great. i never had any problems (except installing, but maybe i was just too dumb for that) and it fulfills all requirements you posted (the optional ones, too).

EDIT:

i wrote my own litte, 1-site-10-point-tutorial for installing (on ubuntu) because the tutorial in the official wiki wasn't realy helping. it's in german, but i saw your're from switzerland, so if you would need help, i could send this to you (after finding it again...).

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oezi Avatar answered Oct 18 '22 16:10

oezi