[SOLVED] looking for a free document manager for linux

Frank999 · 10-07-2022, 03:51 PM

Hello all

I am using linux Mint 20.x

I'm looking for a free document manager for linux. I only know a couple of them openKM and papermerge. Both which are not in the repos.

Do you know any available document manager in the LM repo? Thank you

computersavvy · 10-07-2022, 06:01 PM

When you say "document manager" are you asking about a VCS (version control system)?

If so then a quick search for "document version control software for linux mint" will show 925,000 links.

I do not use mint so do not know which may be in the repos but surely some are.
Actually I think even libreoffice has some vcs capabilities.

Frank999 · 10-07-2022, 07:13 PM

A document manager archives and manages scanned documents.

computersavvy · 10-07-2022, 07:48 PM

Ok, LMGTFY again.

Changing that search to 'document manager for linux mint' gives 670K+ results. Hard to go wrong with a quick search then research to find out which will do what you want.

Since none of us know exactly how you want to manage your work flow it is up to you to find possibilities then decide which works best.

remmilou · 10-08-2022, 03:51 AM

Paperwork is a personal document manager. It manages scanned documents and PDFs.
It's designed to be easy and fast to use. The idea behind Paperwork is "scan & forget": You can just scan a new document and forget about it until the day you need it again.
In other words, let the machine do most of the work for you.

Paperwork is in the Debian repo, so I guess also in Mint.

teckk · 10-08-2022, 09:00 AM

https://openpaper.work/
Depends
https://github.com/archlinux/svntogi...trunk/PKGBUILD

https://mauikit.org/
Depends
https://github.com/archlinux/svntogi...trunk/PKGBUILD

Frank999 · 10-08-2022, 10:13 AM

Thank you all for your help and suggestions computersavvy, remmilou and teckk.

@ computersavvy

I did do a google search before posing this question. But there too many and some had confusing installation steps. Others require to run java on a jar file, i.e openKM.

@ remmilou and teckk

Paperwork a.k.a openpaper.work is in LM. It's simple and to the point. I don't need features found in enterprise versions of DMS ( document management system). It's just for personal use.

Thanks again to all of you.