Self-hosted document management: open-source DMS for paperless offices
Box is $5-25/user/mo. SharePoint is $5-23/user/mo. Self-hosted Paperless-ngx, Docspell, and Mayan EDMS give OCR, full-text search, and document workflows on a $5/mo VPS. The open-source DMS picks ranked by health.
The 22 picks, ranked by health
Health score is a 6-dimension composite. See methodology.
A community-supported supercharged document management system: scan, index and archive all your documents
A privacy-first, self-hosted, fully open source personal knowledge management software, written in typescript and golang.
Joplin - the privacy-focused note taking app with sync capabilities for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS.
Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine (main repository)
The Modern Port Scanner
Convert documentation websites, GitHub repositories, and PDFs into Claude AI skills with automatic conflict detection
Find, validate, and map the impact of leaked secrets across your stack. Revoke fast. 900+ rules.
Think fearlessly with end-to-end encrypted notes and files. For issues, visit https://standardnotes.com/forum or https://standardnotes.com/help.
Go package for OCR (Optical Character Recognition), by using Tesseract C++ library
Ready-to-use OCR with 80+ supported languages and all popular writing scripts including Latin, Chinese, Arabic, Devanagari, Cyrillic and etc.
Beyond file syncing and sharing, a new way to organize your files with extensible file properties and flexible views
Assist in organizing your piles of documents, resulting from scanners, e-mails and other sources with miminal effort.
Modern Confluence alternative designed for internal & external docs, built with Go + EmberJS
Terminal Network scanner & diagnostic tool with modern TUI
File Management Platform / Universal Data Access Layer (without FUSE)
RuVector is a High Performance, Real-Time, Self-Learning Ai, Vector GNN, Memory DB built in Rust.
The Swift machine learning library.
Fast and simple OCR library written in Swift
Selfhosted PDF manager, viewer and editor offering a seamless user experience on multiple devices.
A Model Context Protocol server for converting almost anything to Markdown
Tiny lib to scan SQL rows directly to structs, slices, and primitive types
A simple OCR API server, seriously easy to be deployed by Docker, on Heroku as well
Specifically replacing
These categories on ossreplace cover the SaaS in this space.
Ready to self-host?
Most operators land on paperless-ngx (top health) and run it on hetzner for around $4.13/mo.