[Mayan EDMS: 289] Making Mayan apps reusable apps

[Lie Ryan]

Is there any plans to make Mayan into a more reusable apps? Currently, 
Mayan seems to be designed as a project and is fairly difficult to 
integrate into an existing project. Also, there seems to be no clear 
path to use just parts of Mayan; for example, I certainly can use 
document visualization (thumbnailing), OCR, and metadata/content 
extraction for our project, but I don't need Mayan's user and permission 
management (as we have a our own permission management) and we don't 
need many features in Mayan's document creation features that makes it a 
complicated multi-step wizard, and I want to implement search 
differently. Also, there seems to be no clear way to provide your own 
Document model without modifying Mayan itself.

Currently the only way to extend Mayan seems to be modifying Mayan 
itself and the only way to use Mayan is to use Mayan's project. Is there 
any plans to decouple parts of Mayan so it can be used without the rest 
of Mayan? I think there is a value in releasing some of Mayan's modules 
as external modules that can be installed from PyPI.

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