Self-hosted Document Management software

A document management system (DMS) is a system used to receive, track, manage and store documents and reduce paper.

19 apps, ranked by GitHub stars weighted by maintenance health.

Alternatives to DocuSignAlternatives to Adobe Scan

Stirling-PDF

Local hosted web application that allows you to perform various operations on PDF files, such as merging, splitting, file conversions and OCR.

Actively maintained ★ 95.7k Apache-2.0 🐳 Docker~$10/mo

Paperless-ngx

Scan, index, and archive all of your paper documents with an improved interface (fork of Paperless).

Actively maintained ★ 47.6k GPL-3.0 🐳 Docker~$10/mo

Docuseal

Create, fill, and sign digital documents (alternative to DocuSign).

Actively maintained ★ 19k AGPL-3.0 🐳 Docker~$10/mo

BentoPDF

Powerful, privacy-first, client-side PDF toolkit that allows you to manipulate, edit, merge, and process PDF files directly in your browser.

Actively maintained ★ 16.2k AGPL-3.0 🐳 Docker~$10/mo

Documenso

Digital document signing platform (alternative to DocuSign).

Actively maintained ★ 15.6k AGPL-3.0 🐳 Docker~$10/mo

Gotenberg

Developer-friendly API to interact with powerful tools like Chromium and LibreOffice for converting numerous document formats (HTML, Markdown, Word, Excel, etc.) into PDF files, and more.

Actively maintained ★ 13.5k MIT 🐳 Docker~$10/mo

OpenSign

Document signing software (alternative to DocuSign).

Actively maintained ★ 7.2k AGPL-3.0 🐳 Docker~$10/mo

Papra

Minimalist document storage, management and archiving platform designed to be simple to use and accessible to everyone.

Actively maintained ★ 5.7k AGPL-3.0 🐳 Docker~$10/mo

SnapOtter

Suite of 200+ web tools for converting and editing images, videos, audio and PDFs, including a layer-based image editor, OCR, transcription, background removal and batch processing pipelines (alternative to SmallPDF, iLovePDF, CloudConvert).

Actively maintained ★ 2.9k AGPL-3.0 🐳 Docker~$10/mo

Docspell

Auto-tagging document organizer and archive.

Actively maintained ★ 2.3k GPL-3.0 🐳 Docker~$10/mo

Signature PDF

Sign and manipulate PDFs with collaboration, organization, compression and metadata editing.

Actively maintained ★ 832 AGPL-3.0 🐳 Docker~$10/mo

Mayan EDMS

Electronic document management system for your documents with preview generation, OCR, and automatic categorization among other features.

Actively maintained ★ 682 GPL-2.0 🐳 Docker~$10/mo

SimpleDMS

Easy-to-use, metadata-driven, document management system (DMS) for small businesses that sorts documents almost by itself.

Actively maintained ★ 170 AGPL-3.0 🐳 Docker~$10/mo

Papermerge

Document management system focused on scanned documents (electronic archives). Features file browsing in similar way to dropbox/google drive. OCR, full text search, text overlay/selection.

Maintained ★ 552 Apache-2.0 🐳 Docker~$10/mo

EveryDocs

Simple Document Management System for private use with basic functionality to organize your documents digitally.

Maintained ★ 429 GPL-3.0 🐳 Docker~$10/mo

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.

Maintained ★ 356 GPL-3.0 ~$10/mo

Bottle Rocket

Document scanning and management application, compatible with Rocketbook and Scribzee formats.

Actively maintained ★ 14 MIT 🐳 Docker~$10/mo

PdfDing

PDF manager, viewer and editor offering a seamless user experience on multiple devices. It's designed to be minimal, fast, and easy to set up using Docker.

Health unknown AGPL-3.0 🐳 Docker~$10/mo

SeedDMS

Document Management System with workflows, access rights, fulltext search, and more.

Health unknown GPL-2.0 ~$10/mo