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papermerge-core — Self-host Papermerge DMS core backend, REST API server, and frontend UI

Papermerge DMS core backend, REST API server, and frontend UI

⭐ 505🍴 108Python📜 apache-2.0#digital-archives#dms#document-management-system#documents
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papermerge-core

Papermerge DMS core backend, REST API server, and frontend UI

⭐ 490 stars on GitHub · 🍴 103 forks · 📜 License: apache-2.0 · 💻 Language: Python

What is papermerge-core?

A standout opensource self-host project on GitHub — host on your own server for full control over your data and costs.

Main components

  • Web UI with desktop like experience
  • OpenAPI compliant REST API
  • Works with PDF, JPEG, PNG and TIFF documents
  • Document Versioning
  • Tags - assign colored tags to documents or folders
  • Documents and Folders - users can organize documents in folders
  • Document Types (i.e. Categories)
  • Custom Fields (metadata) per document type

The biggest strength is active opensource community — fast bug fixes, regular features, no abandonment risk.

Best for self-host enthusiasts wanting to try a strong-community opensource project.

Topics: the project is tagged with popular topics:

  • 🏷️ digital-archives
  • 🏷️ dms
  • 🏷️ document-management-system
  • 🏷️ documents
  • 🏷️ ocr
  • 🏷️ pdf
  • 🏷️ records-management
  • 🏷️ scanned-documents

📸 Screenshots

papermerge-core

Quick install

See the README for detailed install instructions. Most projects support Docker — if the repo has a Dockerfile, use:

git clone https://github.com/papermerge/papermerge-core.git
cd papermerge-core
docker build -t papermerge-core .
docker run -d -p 8080:8080 papermerge-core

Minimum system requirements

Component Recommended
RAM 1024 MB
CPU 1 vCPU
Disk 15 GB SSD
OS Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / Debian 12
Docker 24.0+

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Resources

Article compiled from GitHub data on 05/05/2026. Star/fork counts may have changed — see live numbers via the GitHub link.