Papermerge

Papermerge is a document management system for scanned documents, with OCR, full-text search, and text overlays that let users select recognized text. It is for people and teams that maintain electronic archives and need to browse scans or search their contents. Its file browser follows an approach similar to Dropbox and Google Drive. Users can move through files in a familiar browser, then use full-text search to find text produced by OCR. The overlay keeps that text available for selection while working with a scan. Papermerge is focused on electronic archives rather than broad file storage. That focus is also its main limitation: it is built around scanned documents, so users seeking a general-purpose Dropbox or Google Drive replacement should not assume the same scope.