EveryDocs

Overview

A simple Document Management System for private use with basic functionality to organize your documents digitally The project has 336 GitHub stars and is licensed under GPL-3.0.

Key Features

Source: GitHub README

• Uploading PDF documents with a title, description and the date the document was created
• Organizing documents in folders and subfolders
• Adding people and processing states to documents
• Extracting the content from the PDF file for full-text search
• Encrypted storage of PDF files on disk
• Encryption is automatically activated for all newly created users after upgrading to EveryDocs 1.5.0
• For all other users encryption can be activated by adding a secret_key (generated for example by openssl rand -hex 32) and changing the flag encryption_actived_flag in the users database table for each user
• If encrpytion is actived for a user, then there will be no content extraction and therefore no full-text search for this document
• Searching all documents by title, description or content of the document
• Creating new accounts (be aware that at the current moment everybody who knows the URL can create new accounts)

Getting Started

Source: GitHub README

1. Make sure you have Ruby installed. For an installation guide, check here: Ruby installation guide
2. If you haven’t installed the Rails Gem, you can run the following command: gem install rails
3. Download the newest release and unzip it in a location of your own choice.
4. Configure your database connection by setting the following environment variables: EVERYDOCS_DB_ADAPTER (e.g. mysql2), EVERYDOCS_DB_NAME, EVERYDOCS_DB_USER, EVERYDOCS_DB_PASSWORD, EVERYDOCS_DB_HOST,

Normalized Features

Source: tool-features-normalized.json

docker, docker compose, encryption, full text search, mysql, responsive, rest api.

Deploy

Docker

Self-host with Docker Compose

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Managed hosting from $9/mo

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Simple managed hosting

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