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PaperOffice DMS vs Papermerge OSS: catalog facts
PaperOffice DMS	Papermerge OSS
Paid Commercial software; detailed pricing is not broken out in available details.	Free Free and open source under Apache-2.0; a separate paid Papermerge Cloud service exists.
Windows, macOS	Linux, Self-hosted
On-premises Windows version keeps documents off the cloud entirely Broad OCR language support for scanned documents	OCR makes scanned PDFs and documents full-text searchable Free to self-host with no cloud dependency
Paid product with no indicated free tier The on-premises Classic DMS and cloud AI DMS are separate products, which can be confusing	Currently seeking maintainers, so future development is uncertain Requires self-hosting via Docker/Linux, with no polished installer
Downloadable app	Self-hosted
Closed source	Open source
License not stated	License: Apache-2.0
Not stated if an account is needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 22, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 22, 2026

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