Hi I'm looking for an open source document management system (DMS)
software for my personal use. Bet before getting into details, here's my
problem...
I have found myself increasingly having to look for old paper documents
scattered in different locations around my home. This includes bank
statements or the previous year's tax papers. I got so annoyed
especially when it took me 2 days to look for last year's tax papers so
here I am. I have this crazy idea of scanning all documents for the past
12 months (more than that is too much imo), and putting them
electronically in a DMS (not CMS). I don't plan on throwing away the
paper docs, just store them somewhere safe until I need them for
whatever reason.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document_management_system for some of
you who haven't heard of it.
Ok... the 2 features I want are hierarchical/multilevel categories and a
"document date" field. Quite simply, a document date filed specifies the
scanned document's date, not its creation date but the date the doc
applies to. An example would be you receive January's bank statement in
February. So searching based on the creation date would be ineffective
in this case as you'd be creating the entry in Feb or even later. I want
to be able to put "bank statement" and "january 2007"...hence the need
for a document date. Some of you might be thinking of an auto indexing
software but as most of them are scanned images and I'm not prepared to
perform OCR on each one of them, this is a big no no. All I want to do
is scan, fill up the name, description, keywords and doc date fields,
and upload.
I've looked around and found this http://www.opendocman.com/ but quite
frankly it's so simple without any of the features I described. With the
simplicity of the software I even think they spent more time with the
website than the product itself!
Anyway, sorry for the insanely long post-Christmas request. Does anyone
know of FREE/OS software to suit my needs?
Regards,
Carlo
PS. MERRY CHRISTMAS!
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