Minimalist open-source solution for digital document organization, featuring group management, full-text search, tagging, content extraction from images, custom tagging rules, email and folder import, CLI, API, responsive design, and self-hosting.

The best open source alternative to OpenKM is Papra. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to OpenKM and 14 is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to OpenKM are Paperless-ngx, Mayan EDMS, Docspell and PDFKeeper.
Minimalist open-source solution for digital document organization, featuring group management, full-text search, tagging, content extraction from images, custom tagging rules, email and folder import, CLI, API, responsive design, and self-hosting.

Paperless-ngx is a document management system that transforms your physical documents into a searchable online archive so you can keep, well, less paper. Paperless-ngx forked from paperless-ng.








Docspell is a personal document organizer. You'll need a scanner to convert your papers into files. Docspell can then assist in organizing the resulting mess 😉.


PDFKeeper is free, open source document management software that integrates with a compatible, relational database to provide a centralized storage and management solution for PDF documents.

Teedy is a lightweight document management system packed with all the features you can expect from big expensive solutions but still easy to use.




LogicalDOC is a high-performance, intuitive document management system that offers the power of enterprise document management to mid-sized companies and large organizations. LogicalDOC can help any kind of organization anywhere in the world gain control over their documents...





BirchFlow is a document management application designed to help you organize and track your contracts, counterparties, and related documents.




Open source document management system designed for archiving and retrieving your digital documents. Instead of having piles of paper documents all over your desk, office or drawers - you can quickly scan and upload them to Papermerge DMS.



Ambar is a smart documents archive with automated crawling, OCR, deduplication and ultra-fast full-text search. Imagine having billion of files in different formats like xls, doc, txt, pdf, ppt, etc..., in any encoding.




OpenProdoc is an ECM Document Management system with the characteristics:


NemakiWare is an Open Source CMIS-compliant platform for document management.
It uses the NOSQL database CouchDB.
LogicalDOC is quite light and optimized to handle very large repositories, over one million documents