Mayan EDMS

OPEN SRC

Electronic document management system for your documents with preview generation, OCR, and automatic categorization among other features.

► Organizations requiring secure document archival and OCR

VG SCORE

7.9

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Product Details

PricingOpen Source

API✅ REST

Learning CurveModerate

Integrations7 available

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PROS & CONS

STRENGTHS

Completely free and open-source with no licensing costs or user limits.
Highly customizable and extensible through its API and app framework
Open source document management system with strong version control, OCR, and metadata tagging capabilities.

WEAKNESSES

−Requires technical expertise to install, configure, and maintain the server
−Self-hosted setup requires technical expertise for installation and maintenance.

KEY FEATURES

Document Preview Generation

Creates thumbnails and previews for hundreds of file formats directly in the browser.

Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

Automatically extracts text from scanned documents and images for full-text search.

Document Indexing

Tag and categorize documents with metadata for advanced search and retrieval.

Automatic Categorization

Uses tags and metadata to intelligently organize documents upon upload.

WHO IS Mayan EDMS BEST FOR?

Legal and compliance teams

Ideal for professionals requiring robust document retention, audit trails, and access controls to meet regulatory requirements and manage sensitive case files or contracts.

Small to medium businesses

Best for organizations needing a cost-effective, self-hosted solution to digitize, organize, and securely manage paper documents and digital files with features like OCR and search.

INTEGRATIONS

OCR engines (e.g., Tesseract)File storage backends (e.g., S3)Database systems (e.g., PostgreSQL)SAMLREST API clientsLDAP/Active DirectoryEmail servers