gregtap/mayan

Open source, Django based document manager with custom metadata indexing, file serving integration and OCR capabilities

Mayan

Open source, Django based document manager with custom metadata indexing, file serving integration and OCR capabilities.

Features

• User defined metadata fields
• Dynamic default values for metadata
• Lookup support for metadata
• Filesystem integration by means of metadata indexing directories
• User defined document uuid generation
• Local file or server side staging file uploads
• Batch upload many documents with the same metadata
• User defined document checksum algorithm
• Previews for a great deal of image formats, including PDF
• Search documents by any field value
• Group documents by metadata automatically
• Permissions and roles support
• Multi page document support
• Page transformations
• Distributed OCR processing
• Multilingual (English, Spanish)
• Duplicated document search
• Upload multiple documents inside a ZIP file
• Plugable storage backends (File based and GridFS included)

Requirements

Python:

• Django - A high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.
• django-pagination
• django-filetransfers - File upload/download abstraction
• celery - asynchronous task queue/job queue based on distributed message passing
• django-celery - celery Django integration

For the GridFS storage backend:

• PyMongo - the recommended way to work with MongoDB from Python
• GridFS - a storage specification for large objects in MongoDB

Or execute pip install -r requirements/production.txt to install the dependencies automatically.

Executables:

• ImageMagick - Convert, Edit, Or Compose Bitmap Images
• libmagic - MIME detection library
• tesseract-ocr - An OCR Engine that was developed at HP Labs between 1985 and 1995... and now at Google.
• unpaper - post-processing scanned and photocopied book pages
• MongoDB - a scalable, open source, document-oriented database

License

See docs/LICENSE file.

Author

Roberto Rosario - Twitter [E-mail](roberto.rosario.gonzalez at gmail)

Credits

See docs/CREDITS file.

FAQ

See docs/FAQ file for common questions and issues.