Best solution for home (networked) document management
We are moving countries and have scanned all our paper documents into PDFs. We are looking for a simple document management system to index these many files and make them easier to tag, organise and find. Ideally, we would store the documents on our home server, and access them on our laptop(s) over the network.
I originally looked at OpenKM, but have decided it may be overkill for such a simple use case. We don't really need users or account management as we both really want full access to all the documents. I am wondering if something simpler, like Tracker, would be better for our situation and would be keen for your thoughts. My main concern about Tracker is whether we will be able to store the documents on the server and access them from another computer, so would be keen for any workarounds like sharing folders etc over the network. I understand that Tracker stores its index separately from the files, so it wouldn't be possible to simply share the "Documents" directory across the network and point both Tracker instances to it. We are currently intending to have just one laptop, so could store the files on the laptop (in a folder accessible by both users on the laptop) if that would make things easier.
Another feature of OpenKM that appealed was its ability to OCR documents and allow the user to search the full text. Most of our documents were OCRd when we scanned them, so should be searchable anyway, but OCR would be a benefit.
Thanks in advance for your help.
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