Looking for a free document manager / cataloging software

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Hi TE,
I am trying to find a software which can help create a searchable catalogue for scanned pdf documents (mostly legal). The features I am looking for:

  1. Should work on Windows
  2. Should have a GUI and should be able to work with locally stored files
  3. Should have option to add custom tags for searching
  4. Good to have: ability to extract searchable text automatically from the document with ocr.

The software should be functionally similar to a media manager (e.g. tiny media manager). Any suggestions?

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Not used it personally but -

https://www.pdfkeeper.org

Options open up if you go for web based ui and self hosted.

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paperless ngx

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was about to comment the same :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes: this is the best one.

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I second this self hosted for a business and it’s very versatile

Ps:new paperless tagger just came out on r/selfhosted with AI tagging do check that out

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Will check these out. Thanks for the suggestions!

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There are many productivity tools, just search for one which best suits your need.
Example -

https://zapier.com/blog/best-document-management-software/

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I got a few references of these during my search, but these all seems to be paid versions. I was looking for a free option.

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Couple more options you may find on this site- [awesome-self hosted](’

https://awesome-selfhosted.net/tags/document-management.html’

), [GH](’

https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted?tab=readme-ov-file#document-management’

)

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paperless-ngx with paperless-ai

https://github.com/clusterzx/paperless-ai

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Also checkout DocFetcher.

https://docfetcher.sourceforge.io/en/index.html

I use it on my desktop to search through pdf slide decks