Mayan by Roberto Rosario

Bulk upload documents directly or by using a staging folder to receive scanned documents. Organize using document classes and custom meta-data as well as automatic document grouping. Find document by means of full text searching, either meta-data, document properties, content extracted from PDFs or transcribed by OCR.

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 user interface (English, Spanish, and easily expanded to others)
• Multilingual OCR support: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish and others (as supported by Tesseract)
• Duplicated document search
• Upload multiple documents inside a ZIP file
• Plugable storage backends (File based and GridFS included)

Screenshots

Document's page previews

Many configuration option with sensible defaults

Automatic document grouping

Document content extracted or transcribed via OCR

Many file formats supported. Database and storage agnostic

Dependencies

• 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
• 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
• ImageMagick - Convert, Edit, Or Compose Bitmap Images
• GraphicMagick - Robust collection of tools and libraries to read, write, and manipulate an image.
• popper-utils' pdftotext

Installation

	virtualenv --no-site-packages mayan
	cd mayan
	git clone git://github.com/rosarior/mayan.git
	cd mayan
	source ../bin/activate
	pip install -r requirements/production.txt

License

Licensed under the GPL Version 3

Authors

Roberto Rosario

Contact

Roberto Rosario (roberto.rosario.gonzalez@gmail.com)
http://twitter.com/#siloraptor

Download

You can download this project in either zip or tar formats.

You can also clone the project with Git by running:

$ git clone git://github.com/rosarior/mayan