document management choices
Tony Pursell
ajp at princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk
Mon Jul 12 22:36:52 UTC 2010
On Mon, 2010-07-12 at 14:54 -0700, Patton Echols wrote:
> Greetings:
>
> I have a project coming up that requires some intensive document
> examination. I have been looking for a document manager. So far I have
> not installed any to try because none seem to do what I need. I need
> something that starts with the obvious functions, listing documents by
> creation date, modified date if any, author, document name and
> description, giving the user the chance to change the latter. The
> documents I'll be dealing with will mostly be PDFs. Some will be images
> of documents, others will contain text.
>
> Most important, I need to be able to view a document, take notes on it
> and have the notes attach to the document in question. Then, I need to
> be able to both search my notes as well as generate a report of my
> notes. In a perfect world, the ability to OCR the documents (or text
> extract) and save that to a searchable field separate from notes would
> be great. As would the ability to add arbitrary categories to documents
> so I could group differently than I receive them.
>
> The DMS that I have looked at seem to be focused on version control,
> some with searcability, but none with the note taking ability.
>
> Thanks for any thoughts.
>
> --PE
>
If you Google for 'document management system open source' there are
quite a few listed. OpenDocMan, for instance, claims 'Full search by
meta-data, author, department, category, file name, comments,etc.'
Tony
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