Productivity
Document Management Systems
Tools for organizing, indexing, OCR-ing, searching, and sharing managed document libraries.
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.
| # | Tool | Health | Shipping | Openness | Stars | Score | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Paperless-ngx A community-supported supercharged document management system: scan, index and archive all your documents | 91 | 95 | OSI-approved OSS | 43.8k | 92 | Active |
| 02 | Mayan EDMS Free Open Source Document Management System (mirror, no pull request or issues) | 38 | 7 | OSI-approved OSS | 823 | 43 | Critical |
| 03 | OpenKM Open source document management system. | 33 | 0 | OSI-approved OSS | 850 | 38 | Critical |
| 04 | Open 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) | 31 | 0 | OSI-approved OSS | 1.2k | 31 | Critical |
| 05 | Papermerge Open Source Document Management System for Digital Archives (Scanned Documents) | 26 | 0 | OSI-approved OSS | 2.9k | 30 | Critical |
Evidence Watch
Tracked tools with useful public signals but no verdict score yet.