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.

There are many alternatives to Papermerge DMS as a self-hosted solution if you are looking for a replacement. The best Self-Hosted alternative is Papra, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to Papermerge DMS and seven of them are available as a self-hosted solution so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Self-Hosted alternatives to Papermerge DMS are Paperless-ngx, Docspell, Mayan EDMS and Teedy.
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 😉.






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







SimpleDMS is an easy-to-use open source document management system (DMS) for small businesses that sorts documents almost by itself.
