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Questions tagged [document-management]

Anything related to organization and distribution of documents. Sometimes, this functionality is bundled into a standalone application.

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How can I scan multiple pages into a single PDF?

How could I scan multiple pages into a single PDF on the Mac? This is for document archival (mostly invoices and receipts). Ideally, the results should be somewhat searchable (but manually giving it proper filenames and putting it into appropriate…
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Personal Document Management

How do you store, maintain, search and index documents, manuals and personal notes? I, as a programmer regular collect api documentation, manuals, articles, code snippets and programming related documents (pdf, doc, ....). How to other programmers…
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Single HTML+CSS+JS+images file

Is there a file format which integrates all HTML content itself in one file? Instead of doc, docx, odt or pdf, I want to use HTML5 documents to author my content. But that poses a problem when I want to send the HTML files for instance by email;…
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How to change the default document viewer in ranger?

How do I change the default document viewer in the file-manager "ranger"? By pressing [R] it is only possible to choose how to open the document for this one time, but the choice will not be safed. E.g. my default viewer for plain text files is…
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How do I edit/append metadata to files in Windows Explorer?

Windows 7 seems to have all these fancy metadata fields that are viewable in Explorer - but no way to edit all of them! I know you can right click -> properties to edit a few things and to scrub metadata, but many of the fields in the Details tab…
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What's a free or affordable collaboration solution for managing documents and files amongst multiple nontechnical users?

I have some friends who own a business and both work together on their computers out of their homes. They would like to collaborate together on some documents, QuickBooks files, etc. As they seem to be on board with the whole "only one of us works…
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How to store processed data?

I'm working on a project involving Twitter data. I have several hundreds thousand tweets downloaded and stored in files. The data was returned in json format, and the stream consumer I was using converted them to python dictionaries, so I it's all…
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Is there a good way to "automatically" scan business documents?

My parents own a relatively small machine shop and would like a way to have documents such as purchase orders and invoices scanned into a system where they can be entered into their accounting software by somebody offsite. Is there a relatively…
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Which is an easy to use Document Management System given my requirements

Original question on SO. I looked up a lot of threads on a good document management system on SO. So, given all that knowledge, here is my question: What is a very intuitive, open source (preferably with no commercial upgrade) document management…
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Is there a Windows equivalent to Mac OS X's document proxy icons?

In Mac OS X, all document based applications will show the filename and icon in the document's title bar. From this icon you can drag and drop it to other applications such as attaching it to an email, move or copy it to another location, or if you…
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Teamdrive/Tonido/Syncplicity-like Servers? (like Dropbox)

I've been looking around for dropbox-like server products and so far have found this three: http://www.tonido.com (free, no limits) http://www.teamdrive.com (free, limited) http://www.syncplicity.com (free, limited) and this how-to, on how to…
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Software to manage a library of searchable PDF documents

What Linux software would you recommend for managing a library of searchable PDF documents? I have a Fujitsu S500 document scanner, and have been using the Windows software that came with it to scan and organize various documents (letters, bank…
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What source document format can be exported to PDF and generate digital signature fields?

My team wants to send out to 3rd parties a contract in PDF format, with digital signature fields that could be signed using Adobe Reader. Every time we add a new 3rd party to the contract, we are legally obliged to send the document with the entire…
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Add manager to Alfresco share site if there are no managers in the site

I setup Alfresco share for a big company. I import the users from AD via ldap. There was a site which had only one manager. The managers user account got deleted from ad and so now there are no managers in the site. Now no one can approve any new…
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What's the best way to divide organizational groups up in Sharepoint?

My organization is hoping to use Sharepoint for some simple document management. We have multiple boards: Proerty Board, Membership Board, etc. Each one of these boards need a document repository. That's ALL they need right now. In the future,…
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