Papermerge
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Papermerge DMS is an open source document management system built for scanned documents and digital archives. It is aimed at users who need to store, organize, and search paper scans or image-based...
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Features
- Web UI with desktop-like experience
- OpenAPI compliant REST API
- PDF/JPEG/PNG/TIFF support
- document versioning
- tags
- hierarchical folders
- document types
- custom fields
- multi-user support
- group ownership and sharing
Details
- Last Updated
- Nov 12, 2026
- Created
- Dec 23, 2020
- Install Methods
- dockersource
- Requirements
- Python 3.14PostgreSQLOCR workerfull text search engine
- Authentication
- local
- API
- REST
- Runtime / Stack
- DockerK8S
- Privacy & Independence
- No Cloud Required
- User Model
- Multi-User
- Deployment
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