Document storage and management

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Whats a decent solution for document storage and management? Mostly to do with document scans and files created by Pastal. Must have a decent search function. I would prefer a FOSS solution.

I came across this:
http://www.opendocman.com

However it looks pretty terrible, and I am not sure how functional it is. Anyone got experience with this?
 
w1z4rd said:
Whats a decent solution for document storage and management? Mostly to do with document scans and files created by Pastal. Must have a decent search function. I would prefer a FOSS solution.

I came across this:
http://www.opendocman.com

However it looks pretty terrible, and I am not sure how functional it is. Anyone got experience with this?
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Not sure about the "decent" part or if compatible with pastels format but have you looked at google docs?
 
Park@82 said:
Not sure about the "decent" part or if compatible with pastels format but have you looked at google docs?
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Im not sure that will work for what I have in mind. We are going to be dealing with terabytes to petabytes of information. I think it will all want be be kept onsite.
 
w1z4rd said:
Whats a decent solution for document storage and management? Mostly to do with document scans and files created by Pastal. Must have a decent search function. I would prefer a FOSS solution.

I came across this:
http://www.opendocman.com

However it looks pretty terrible, and I am not sure how functional it is. Anyone got experience with this?
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Are you looking for something for work ie. your firm's documents etc. or is it for home?

Reason for asking is that I have been searching for a home solution (as an engineer I also have several scans, documents and spreadsheet that I have collected and developed over the years, and to find someone often requires significant effort and memory-jogging :D

At one firm where I worked we used SmartPlant Foundation, it is a suite of software and the particular DMS (document management system) was reasonably effective. It basically creates a database with metadata for each document, offers revision control, login-based access, check-in / check-out style user interface etc. It was quite expensive though I recall.

If you are interested I could put you in touch with the system administrator, I am sure he would be able to point you in the right direction.

If it is for a home application (and its free/low-cost) please let me know I would definitely be interested in helping you test-driving it!

Rudi
 
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