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# Papermerge DMS
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Papermerge is a open source document management system designed to work with
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scanned documents. It extracts text from your scans (which might be PDF, TIFF,
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JPEG or PNG), indexes it, and prepares it for full text search. Papermerge
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provides the look and feel of modern desktop file browsers. It has features like
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tags, hierarchical folders and automations so that you can efficiently organize
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your documents.
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scanned documents, also called digital archives. It extracts text from your
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scans (which might be PDF, TIFF, JPEG or PNG), indexes it, and prepares it for
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full text search. Papermerge provides the look and feel of modern desktop file
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browsers. It has features like dual panel document browser, drag and drop, tags,
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hierarchical folders, so that you can efficiently store and organize your
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documents.
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It is perfect tool for long term storage of your digital archives.
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![Papermerge screenshot](img/document-management-system-screenshot.png)
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## Features Highlights
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* Works well with PDFs
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* Desktop like user interface
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* Dual panel mode
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* OCR - used to extract text for documents indexing
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* OCRed text overlay (you can download document with OCRed text overlay)
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* Full text search (supports multiple search engines)
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* Document Versioning
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* Tags - assign colored tags to documents or folders
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* Folders - users can organize documents in folders
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* Multi-User
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* User permissions management
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* Fully REST API (all features can be consumed via REST API)
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* Page Management - delete, reorder, rotate, merge, move, extract
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## What It Does
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* It extract and indexes text from your documents
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* Provides nice user interface to easily find your documents
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* Augments your documents with tags and [metadata](user/metadata.md)
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* Helps you instantly find your documents:
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* based on extracted text
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* based on [metadata](user/metadata.md)
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* based on [tags and folders](user/tags-and-folders.md)
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* Helps you fix scanned documents issues
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* It extracts (using OCR) and indexes text from your documents
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* Provides modern, desktop like user interface to easily find your documents
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* Helps you instantly find your documents
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* Helps you fix scanned documents issues like:
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* delete blank, semi-blank or just irrelevant pages
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* rotate pages
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* move strayed pages between documents
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* change page order within the document
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## What It Doesn't Do
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* It does **not** take control of your documents. Documents are **stored on
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filesystem** in a simple and intuitive manner so that you can take snapshot of
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your data at any time
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* It does **not** stay in your way when you make decisions about your data
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* It does **not** overwrite your original documents
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## Right Tool for You?
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To be efficient you always need to choose right tool for the problem. Because
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Document Management is too generic - I think that a definition of what is a
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Document in context of this software is needed.

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