What is papermerge.com?
Papermerge DMS is an open‑source document management system that stores, indexes, and searches scanned PDFs, JPEGs, and TIFFs. It offers a modern web interface with full‑text, tag, and metadata search. The software automatically applies OCR using the open‑source Tesseract engine, adding selectable text to image‑only documents.
Each file is versioned; operations such as OCR or edits create a new version while preserving the original. Users can define custom fields (e.g., price, issue date, issuer) and categories (Receipt, Invoice, Contract) to structure documents and generate metadata.
Page‑management tools let you reorder, rotate, and extract pages to correct bulk‑scan errors without re‑scanning. Licensed under Apache 2.0 and available on GitHub, Papermerge DMS is suitable for archivists, legal teams, and small businesses that need an extensible, searchable archive.
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papermerge.com's key features
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Index scanned documents
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Full text tag search
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OCR with Tesseract engine
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Document version control
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Custom metadata fields
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Document category classification
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Page reordering and rotation
papermerge.com use cases
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Automate the indexing and tagging of scanned invoices and receipts, enabling finance departments to retrieve expense data instantly via OCR-driven metadata search
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Create a version-controlled archive of legal contracts, where each amendment is automatically stored as a new version, and staff can reorder pages or add custom metadata for regulatory compliance
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Enable small businesses to upload and OCR product manuals, then publish them as searchable, page‑editable PDF guides directly from the web interface for customer support
Who is it for?
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Information technologists
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Business owners
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Legal practitioners
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Data managers
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Knowledge workers
