Best Document Management Systems tools by public signals

These picks are computed from scored public evidence. Use the openness column in the ranking to separate OSI-approved, source-available, open-core, proprietary, and unverified-license tools.

Use Case Rankings

Ordered by ToolVitals score, health, shipping, confidence, and then adoption as a tie-breaker.

#ToolHealthShippingOpennessStarsScoreStatus
01Paperless-ngx
A community-supported supercharged document management system: scan, index and archive all your documents
9195OSI-approved OSS43.8k92Active
02Mayan EDMS
Free Open Source Document Management System (mirror, no pull request or issues)
387OSI-approved OSS82343Critical
03OpenKM
Open source document management system.
330OSI-approved OSS85038Critical
04Open Semantic Search
Open Source research tool to search, browse, analyze and explore large document collections by Semantic Search Engine and Open Source Text Mining & Text Analytics platform (Integrates ETL for document processing, OCR for images & PDF, named entity recognition for persons, organizations & locations, metadata management by thesaurus & ontologies, search user interface & search apps for fulltext search, faceted search & knowledge graph)
310OSI-approved OSS1.2k31Critical
05Papermerge
Open Source Document Management System for Digital Archives (Scanned Documents)
260OSI-approved OSS2.9k30Critical

Evidence Watch

Tracked tools with useful public signals but no verdict score yet.