What is Papermerge DMS?
Papermerge DMS is an open-source document management system built for digital archiving. It supports a variety of file formats, including PDF, JPEG, and TIFF. This platform provides optical character recognition (OCR) to add searchable and selectable text to your scanned documents, this improve efficiency for the users.
The system features version control, which means the originally uploaded version of a document is always retained. Any operation like OCR processing creates a new document version. The user-friendly web interface includes page management features that let users reorder, rotate, and extract pages, fixing common scanning errors without rescanning.
Features
- OCR: Adds searchable and selectable text to scanned documents using the Tesseract engine.
- Versioning: Retains the original version of uploaded documents and creates new versions for each operation.
- Custom Fields: Allows users to define custom attributes for documents (e.g., price, date of issue, issuer for receipts).
- Categories: Enables categorization of documents into types like Receipt, Invoice, or Contract.
- Page Management: Provides features to reorder, rotate, and extract pages within documents.
- User Friendly: Intuitive, beautiful, and modern web based user interface.
Use Cases
- Digital archiving of scanned documents
- Organizing and managing receipts and invoices
- Storing and versioning contracts
- Creating a searchable archive of documents
- Managing documents with custom metadata
