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Document management, often referred to as Document Management Systems (DMS), is the use of a computer system and software to store, manage and track electronic documents and electronic images of paper based information captured through the use of a document scanner.

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Storing Documents as Blobs in a Database - Any disadvantages?

The requirements for my document management system were: Must be secure from theft by simple copying of directories, files etc. Must be secure against traditional virus infection (infection of physical file) Must be fast to retrieve The repository…
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Storing files in database Vs file system

one of my customer ask for a Document Management System for some thousands of document in different format i.e. pdf, doc, docx etc. My question is what is the best way to store this file in database or in file system? How easy to secure a document…
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Simple document repository

Please recommend me a simple web-based document repository for keeping my small company documents (.DOCs, .PDFs) so i can access them from everywhere. There are many available on the internet, but they are heavy and filled with unnecessary features…
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Version Numbers float, decimal or double

I have a document management system where documents can have multiple versions. Each version is saved and users can view version history. What I would like to know is: What datatype should I use for version numbers? Decimal, Float or Double? I'm…
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Checking for document duplicates and similar documents in a document management application

Update: I have now written a PHP extension called php_ssdeep for the ssdeep C API to facilitate fuzzy hashing and hash comparisons in PHP natively. More information can be found over at my blog. I hope this is helpful to people. I am involved in…
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Open source document management system

I have evaluated couple of Open source document management system and it seems that these are in old days e.g.opendocman,quotero I am looking for a open source document management system which provides me below features. Should keep data on the…
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Whats the best way to implement a simple document management system?

I am planning to build a simple document management system. Preferably built around the java platform. Are there are best practices around this? The requirements are : Ability to upload documents Ability to Tag documents Version the…
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Edit docx using nokogiri and rubyzip

Here, I'm using a rubyzip and nokogiri to modify a .docx file. RubyZip -> Unzip .docx file Nokogiri -> Parse and change in content of the body of word/document.xml As I wrote the sample code just below but code modify the file but others file were…
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The Difference between Sharepoint Document Title and Document Name

A colleague of mine developed a workflow which auto set title to document. With this workflow,as he put it, he can optimize the research and lookup things like that. However I think it can be done just by name of document. There are must be some…
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Document management under Linux

after years navigating seas of unorganized documents, I'm starting to look for a cheap/free way to classify our work docs structurally, in order to tidy things up and to better enforce the workflow.. So I'd like to be able to tag documents according…
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What are the reasons to store documents into DBMS when using Alfresco CMS

I have interview for an internship with company that wants to implement document management system and they are considering on the first place open source solutions, their top choice being Alfresco, but decision is still not final, part of my work…
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DMS (Document Management System) / File Repository / File Manager under Java EE

I need to create a very simple DMS (Document Management System) / File Repository / file manager or whatever we might call it under Java EE. It should permit the user to create folders and upload files into it and the folder/files information should…
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Document management for private usage

For private usage I am looking for a simple document management system (NOT a Web CMS). The requirements are relatively simple : Web based Free, prefer open-source Able to store electronic documents (Word, PDF, ...) and scanned paper documents (in…
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Document-Based Security in ASP.NET MVC

I already know about User and Role-based security in ASP.NET MVC. But now I need something a little more granular. Let's say I have a list of documents, some of which the user is authorized for, some not. Each document has a corresponding record…
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Document Management System in .NET

does anyone know about a document management system (or modules) that can be integrated with .NET? Thanks.
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