I, Librarian
Organize PDF papers and office documents. It provides a lot of extra features for students and research groups both in industry and academia.
At a glance
- GitHub stars
- 356
- Last activity
- 2025-12-02
- Latest release
- 5.11.3
2025-12-02 - Commits (12 mo)
- 2
- License
- GPL-3.0
- Language / platform
- PHP
Maintenance health: Maintained — Activity within the last 12 months.
Run I, Librarian yourself
- RAM: ~2 GB server (1 vCPU)
- Docker: not detected — install from source or packages
- Storage: plan disk for your data (media/files grow fast); attach a volume or use object storage.
- OCR jobs are CPU-intensive
Estimated monthly server cost
| Provider | Plan size | ~ USD / month | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vultr | 2 GB | $10 | Deploy → |
| DigitalOcean | 2 GB | $12 | Deploy → |
| Akamai (Linode) | 2 GB | $12 | Deploy → |
Rough estimate from the app's stack and category, not a benchmark. Several light apps can share one server. Some hosting links may be affiliate links. We may earn a commission at no extra cost to you; it never affects which apps we list.
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