Ask HN: Document Management for Startups

Posted by kierank on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @05:16PM
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My startup scans and shreds almost all paperwork. What tools are there to index and understand tens of thousands of scanned pages to get useful information out of them? Tools that are simple for end users, not for document management experts

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Re:Ask HN: Document Management for Startups by jason2323 on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @06:02PM (#19506587)

We built an internal system where we place all to-be-scanned documents into a tray and have everything scanned once a week. We wrote cron jobs that execute every night to upload the documents into our S3 bucket. But we don’t have software that makes it searchable yet

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Re:Ask HN: Document Management for Startups by tixocloud on Thursday March 28, 2019 @05:30AM (#19510592)

What type of documents/paperwork are you looking to archive or extract? I would evaluate whether you need to make everything searchable or prioritize certain documents over others.

For example, we're working on a process to scan through our emails, pick out invoices, archive the document but extract the necessary information for accounting purposes.

For other documents, we'd like to make them searchable but they just get dumped into a cloud storage space at the moment.

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Re:Ask HN: Document Management for Startups by bluejedi on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @11:05PM (#19508834)

Mayan Edms open source self hosted DMS, https://mayan-edms.com/

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