Papermerge is an open source document management system (DMS) primarily designed for archiving and retrieving your digital documents.

Document Management System for Digital Archives

Store, organize and index scanned documents in PDF, JPEG and TIFF formats. Instantly find relevant information using full text, tags and metadata based search

Feature Highlights

Open Source

Papermerge is free and open source software which means that transparency is the core values of our software development. Source code can be reviewed and improved by anyone from anywhere.

Multi-User

Papermerge supports multiple users. Each user can be assigned different permissions to perform only a specific kind of action e.g. view only documents from a specific folder.

OCR

OCR technology is vital part of Papermerge. It extracts text information from scanned documents, PDF, JPEG, TIFF files. Extracted text is then parsed and indexed to help you to quickly find any document based on its content.

REST API

Our simple and intuitive REST API empowers you to further extend Papermerge capabilities to adjust your individual needs. With help of REST API you can import documents literally from anywhere.

Full Text Search

Find any document just by typing a few words similarly to modern search engines. Besides text content you can instantly find any document based on its colored tags and rich metadata.

Document Versioning

Papermerge keeps versions of all changes you apply to your documents so that you never lose one bit of information. Documents are non-destructive. Original document version is always available.

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