Alternatives to Mayan EDMS

Mature open-source document management system with workflows. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.

Replacements

Listings that take over the same core job as Mayan EDMS.

  • Paperless-ngx

    Turns scanned paper into a searchable archive: OCR, automatic tagging, full-text search and a web interface you host yourself.

    FreeOpen sourceLinuxSelf-hostedWeb

    Paperless-ngx is a GPL-3.0 archive with OCR, automatic tagging and full-text search aimed at personal paper, deployed through Docker Compose, without Mayan's workflow engine.

  • OpenKM Community

    Open-source document management with workflows, OCR and search.

    FreemiumOpen sourceWindowsLinuxWebSelf-hosted

    OpenKM Community offers workflows, metadata, OCR and search under GPL-2.0, but it runs on a heavy Java stack and trails the paid professional editions.

  • LogicalDOC Community

    Community edition of a document management system with search and APIs.

    FreemiumOpen sourceWindowsLinuxWebSelf-hosted

    LogicalDOC Community provides versioning, access control and REST and SOAP APIs under LGPL-3.0, but OCR and workflow are only in the paid editions.

  • Teedy

    Lightweight self-hosted document management server.

    FreeOpen sourceWindowsmacOSLinuxWebSelf-hosted

    Teedy is a far lighter self-hosted document server with OCR search, LDAP and sharing links, but it has no workflow engine or retention policies.

Similar software

Related functionality, not a direct replacement.