Papermerge is an open-source electronic document management system (EDM / DMS), designed for digitized documents: invoices, contracts, mail, payslips. It automatically applies OCR (optical character recognition) to every imported PDF or image, making the content full-text searchable.

The interface follows the familiar logic of a file explorer: you organize your documents into folders and subfolders, apply tags and metadata, and split or merge pages on the fly. Full-text search finds a document by its content, even years later.

For enterprise use, Papermerge supports multiple users with roles and permissions, a built-in document preview, and an API. Deployed in a container, it integrates cleanly into a managed infrastructure and remains lightweight to operate.