Scanning/OCR/Document Management Software
Posted by FroYoSandwhich@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 13 comments
Wondering what you guys use for this. We use File Center pretty heavily here. Seems a little cumbersome and needs a dedicated machine for indexing in addition to it utilizing a share on the file server. It's about $200 per user per year (11 users total). I'm not well versed in this area. What do you guys like?
Most_Medicine_6053@reddit
I have clients who love paperport.
gand1@reddit
We use Docuware. It's expensive and a cloud connected service but the indexing and smart filing work wonders.
pedrostefanogv@reddit
https://github.com/clusterzx/paperless-ai
Da uma olhada
redeuxx@reddit
We use Paperless NGX for 110k docs. It's only used as an archive though.
Funlovinghater@reddit
LaserFiche is what we use, though it is a lot more than just document management.
Pretty good stuff if you are willing to dive into it.
macbig273@reddit
if it's a little ponctual task that some of your user need to do, it's actually built in in macos and windows nowadays ....
TheBlueKingLP@reddit
Maybe paperless ng, I don't use it personally but I saw a lot of people mentioning this one.
FroYoSandwhich@reddit (OP)
Looks cool but seems you have to build it yourself on a linux VM, etc. Looking for a little more turnkey
KippersAndMash@reddit
I run Paperless at home. The setup in docker is a bit of work but it's so worth it. I haven't touched it once since I installed it (besides updates). It's one of my favourite apps in my home lab.
TheBlueKingLP@reddit
It could be on a docker if you don't mind that, pretty much a compose then you're good to go I think.
NerdBlender@reddit
We use Docuware. Its not the cheapest but its a bit of a swiss army knife when it comes to documents
hi-test-tech@reddit
ABBYY Vantage is pretty good for OCR alone. It can API out to Azure Blob or whatever storage flavor you like. If you are looking for a fuller featured product, Square-9 will handle retention, storage, OCR, and more.
Atrium-Complex@reddit
On the OCR side I used Tesseract OCR and a script to convert scanned documents.
If you have some programming know how, you could probably create a service to monitor a folder and auto ingest files through Tesseract to convert. Worked extremely well, it even managed to decipher some shitty chicken scratch on documents from the 90's.
Document management wise, we just used shitty windows search indexer... no one wanted to spend the $$$ on a better solution.