Re: [gentoo-user] Document management solution [possibly a bit off-topic...]
On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Steve [Gentoo] wrote: I think I want a document management solution - though I'm not sure that everyone understands the same idea by the term. This might be overkill: http://www.alfresco.org/ Or maybe something like ScrollKeeper would suffice? -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Document management solution [possibly a bit off-topic...]
A. Khattri wrote: On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Steve [Gentoo] wrote: I think I want a document management solution - though I'm not sure that everyone understands the same idea by the term. This might be overkill: http://www.alfresco.org/ Alfresco is what I'd have called a content management system - as opposed to a document management system. I'm interested in managing archives of documents I have received from other people (in dead-tree format)... Or maybe something like ScrollKeeper would suffice? Scrollkeeper seems to target electronic manuals etc. (as far as I can tell) - It doesn't appear to be focused on scanned documents. The typical sort of documents I need to manage include monthly and quarterly invoices and statements etc. from a wide variety of vendors. Like Alfresco, I'd say that Scrollkeeper looks more like a content management system than a document management system... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Document management solution [possibly a bit off-topic...]
On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Steve [Gentoo] wrote: Alfresco is what I'd have called a content management system - as opposed to a document management system. I'm interested in managing archives of documents I have received from other people (in dead-tree format)... If there was something that scanned the document, performed OCR on it, checked the OCR output and then built an electronic repository for you I'd recommend it. Until then, Alfresco is the closest thing Ive seen that is open source. If you're willing to do your own scanning and OCR'ing then it will do the rest. BTW, I would call things like Mambo or Xaraya, content-management tools - Alfresco is a slightly different kettle of fish. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Document management solution [possibly a bit off-topic...]
On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 16:52:54 -0400 (EDT) A. Khattri wrote: On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Steve [Gentoo] wrote: Alfresco is what I'd have called a content management system - as opposed to a document management system. I'm interested in managing archives of documents I have received from other people (in dead-tree format)... If there was something that scanned the document, performed OCR on it, checked the OCR output and then built an electronic repository for you I'd recommend it. Until then, Alfresco is the closest thing Ive seen that is open source. If you're willing to do your own scanning and OCR'ing then it will do the rest. BTW, I would call things like Mambo or Xaraya, content-management tools - Alfresco is a slightly different kettle of fish. Yes I know what Steve is after, and I'd love to find a way. I was put off by Alfresco being called Content Management because all of the content management systems I have seen end up bioding something that resembles [name your favourite news website] A closer look at alfresco reveals that it does look more like what Steve (and I ) are after. I am a lawyer and I handle hundreds of documents every week, from email through pdf (both made from an electronic source and therefore has all the text available, and scanned) openoffice (one enlightened client!), word, excel, html, faxes, letters (on paper, ya know!) you name it someone will send me something in it! It'd be great to have a metadata system where I could give everything some keywords: client name, file number, matter number, subjects, useful as a precedent, useful case etc etc etc so that in future I can : pull up every document on my computer, my secretary's computer, my mail server (including attachments), my file server, my palm pilot, relating to a particular client pull up every document about company debentures find the case i downloaded and stored somewhere about liability of guarantors in a consumer credit loan find the seminar book for the seminar i went to on asome new area of law. find a letter written by Joe Bloggs sometime in 2003. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Document management solution [possibly a bit off-topic...]
On Fri, 2005-09-30 at 10:36 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 16:52:54 -0400 (EDT) A. Khattri wrote: On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Steve [Gentoo] wrote: Alfresco is what I'd have called a content management system - as opposed to a document management system. I'm interested in managing archives of documents I have received from other people (in dead-tree format)... If there was something that scanned the document, performed OCR on it, checked the OCR output and then built an electronic repository for you I'd recommend it. Until then, Alfresco is the closest thing Ive seen that is open source. If you're willing to do your own scanning and OCR'ing then it will do the rest. BTW, I would call things like Mambo or Xaraya, content-management tools - Alfresco is a slightly different kettle of fish. Yes I know what Steve is after, and I'd love to find a way. I was put off by Alfresco being called Content Management because all of the content management systems I have seen end up bioding something that resembles [name your favourite news website] A closer look at alfresco reveals that it does look more like what Steve (and I ) are after. I am a lawyer and I handle hundreds of documents every week, from email through pdf (both made from an electronic source and therefore has all the text available, and scanned) openoffice (one enlightened client!), word, excel, html, faxes, letters (on paper, ya know!) you name it someone will send me something in it! It'd be great to have a metadata system where I could give everything some keywords: client name, file number, matter number, subjects, useful as a precedent, useful case etc etc etc so that in future I can : pull up every document on my computer, my secretary's computer, my mail server (including attachments), my file server, my palm pilot, relating to a particular client pull up every document about company debentures find the case i downloaded and stored somewhere about liability of guarantors in a consumer credit loan find the seminar book for the seminar i went to on asome new area of law. find a letter written by Joe Bloggs sometime in 2003. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm not sure if what you're describing exists right now in the open source world, but I can tell you that it certainly does in the commercial world. I used to work in the metadata department for a startup here in upstate NY, USA that built a web based application targeting lawyers such as yourself. It was written in PHP/MySQL but the database was being migrated to Oracle due to the rapid growth in the database tables. Unfortunately though, in the migration to Oracle, they elected to create a dynamic scheme to support adding custom metadata fields as requested per client. It was great for flexibility but the performance was horrible even on quad 3 ghz xeon boxes with maxed out memory. For us programmers, it also made the easy queries difficult and the hard queries near impossible. Eric -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
