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Document Management
Self-hosted alternatives to Evernote scanning and Adobe Acrobat online.
What people say
- scan and organise paper documents
- go paperless
- search my invoices and letters
- edit and convert PDFs privately
Why people self-host it
People leave Evernote scanning, Adobe Acrobat online, online PDF tools for it. Why, strongest first: privacy, control.
Does it suit a machine of your own?
Good fit documents are often sensitive, which suits a machine you control
Questions that decide it
- archive documents, or work on PDFs?
How to publish it
- Usually
- org
- When the data is private or sensitive
- org, or not published
- When the data is regulated
- documents with client, patient, or financial data: org, with the app's per-user or per-group permissions, encrypted backups, and the person's professional rules on retention
Who sees what inside it
owners, groups, and per-document permissions decide who sees which documents
The machine
disk for the documents; OCR uses memory
Cards for it
- stirling-pdfStirling-PDF, the PDF toolbox, behind your org loginpassed 2026-10-12, Edgible 1.4.6
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