BentoPDF source
Powerful, privacy-first, client-side PDF toolkit that allows you to manipulate, edit, merge, and process PDF files directly in your browser.
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Self-hosted Document Management software (2026)
A [document management system](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document_management_system) (DMS) is a system used to receive, track, manage and store documents and reduce paper.
17 open-source apps · all free & self-hostable
Docspell source
Auto-tagging document organizer and archive.
Documenso source
Digital document signing platform (alternative to DocuSign).
Docuseal source
Create, fill, and sign digital documents (alternative to DocuSign).
EveryDocs
Simple Document Management System for private use with basic functionality to organize your documents digitally.
Gotenberg source
Developer-friendly API to interact with powerful tools like Chromium and LibreOffice for converting numerous document formats (HTML, Markdown, Word, Excel, etc.) into PDF files, and more.
I, Librarian source
Organize PDF papers and office documents. It provides a lot of extra features for students and research groups both in industry and academia.
Mayan EDMS source
Electronic document management system for your documents with preview generation, OCR, and automatic categorization among other features.
OpenSign source
Document signing software (alternative to DocuSign).
Paperless-ngx source
Scan, index, and archive all of your paper documents with an improved interface (fork of Paperless).
Papermerge source
Document management system focused on scanned documents (electronic archives). Features file browsing in similar way to dropbox/google drive. OCR, full text search, text overlay/selection.
Papra source
Minimalist document storage, management and archiving platform designed to be simple to use and accessible to everyone.
PdfDing source
PDF manager, viewer and editor offering a seamless user experience on multiple devices. It's designed to be minimal, fast, and easy to set up using Docker.
SeedDMS source
Document Management System with workflows, access rights, fulltext search, and more.
Signature PDF
Sign and manipulate PDFs with collaboration, organization, compression and metadata editing.
SimpleDMS source
Easy-to-use, metadata-driven, open-source document management system (DMS) for small businesses that sorts documents almost by itself.
Stirling-PDF
Local hosted web application that allows you to perform various operations on PDF files, such as merging, splitting, file conversions and OCR.