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A secure, private, searchable online document storage service
Have you considered ownCloud? They meet all your criteria, including searchability.
They have
a fully fleged user management (optional with LDAP integration)
supports full-text search via its Lucene ...
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A secure, private, searchable online document storage service
NemakiWare is designed for this.
Upload your files, use them, organize them as you like.
Search by filename or by content (full-text search). For instance, if a PDF (or Word file) contains "ECM", ...
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Software for creating application help files
We evaluated several a while back and decided on http://www.helpndoc.com/ It creates the file formats you mention, as well as the bonus formats you request. The editor is not as WYSIWYG as some, but ...
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Open source software for document management in Linux?
It's is pretty unexpected but emacs will serve.
You need emacs and some plugins for it:
emacs : extremely hackable UI environment that uses lisp dialect
bookmark plus : let you organize files, tag ...
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What is an open-source alternative to the Atlassian suite of products (Confluence, JIRA, etc.)?
TRAC has wiki, bug tracker, code viewer, all with markup to interlink.
Or, there is its fork Apache Bloodhound.
All written in Python, plenty of plugins. Very mature.
BTW Trac wiki is much closer ...
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What is an open-source alternative to the Atlassian suite of products (Confluence, JIRA, etc.)?
I've played with Phabricator a little bit, but it's been over a year. It seems to have set its sights high with lots of components and functionality.
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PDF organizer with virtual hierarchy, fast viewer, highlighting, search
One tool that seems to meet your requirements is Zotero. I recommend it highly. In particular, I've had good experience with it across multiple platforms and web browsers, including Ubuntu with ...
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Simple open source document scan/tag/catalog more lightweight than Alfresco
LogicalDOC Community is Open Source and free.
LogicalDOC is platform-independent and offers a simple web interface. It is absolutely lightweight and you can install it in a server as well as in a ...
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Cross-platform ebook collection
Your main question you've already answered yourself: Calibre is the central place to manage your collection of books. With this application, you can:
manage your books and their Metadata
edit your ...
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What is an open-source alternative to the Atlassian suite of products (Confluence, JIRA, etc.)?
That's simple - GitLab - i know you're looking at another direction, but if you think about it, GitLab has great implementation opportunities beyond building software. It has most of the features ...
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Document Triage platform
First, install Alfresco and the Calais integration (it might take a day depending on your experience).
Then upload all of your documents to Alfresco.
Calais is a library/API developed by Reuters to ...
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Document and receipt management (a replacement for Neat Receips)
Paperless is a self-hosted solution in which you push scanned documents to a folder and it automatically performs OCR and makes them searchable. I can't speak for the ease of installation, as I haven'...
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Software to split large PDF file into multiple documents
If you make a note of the page numbers and desired titles you can quickly produce a batch file to do this with pdftk just using the syntax:
pdftk inputfilename.pdf 1-11 output outfilename1.pdf
pdftk ...
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Tool for Requirements checking and commenting?
We use Confluence for this purpose. Some investment is required in building a template to capture the requirements from different stakeholder groups' points of view but this can be evolved over time.
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Track changes in a shared project folder
For this use case, I suggest Alfresco.
Alfresco replaces your traditional Windows Share. It uses the same protocol, so the change is transparent for users. You can also access it via WebDAV, CMIS, ...
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Desktop-based personal wiki
While not a wiki by the common definition of the term, Microsoft OneNote meets the requirements described.
OneNote provides note-taking (including handwritten when using an appropriate tablet ...
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Content repository with versioning and full-text search capabilities
Alfresco fits the requirements:
It includes Solr, and full-text search works out-of-the-box.
Apache Tika is also included out-of-the-box, so metadata is extracted from most file formats.
Alfresco of ...
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Crop and de-skew scans automatically - scriptable, high-volume
I use Batch Image Resizer. It can batch-process hundreds of images quickly - automatically in the background or as a scheduled task. It has autocrop action where it can automatically remove uniform or ...
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Simple open source document scan/tag/catalog more lightweight than Alfresco
I like OpenProdoc. http://jhierrot.github.io/openprodoc/
This open source EDMS is java based and runs as either a (Swing) client or (web) server. A standalone version is available that runs right out ...
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Software for creating application help files
HelpMaker is a Help Authoring Tool to make WinHelp, HTML-Help, HTML-Website and RTF (i.e., manuals) files. HelpMaker is fully functional GUI help authoring tool written in Delphi. Many open-source ...
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Ebook library management for OS X
Apple's own iBooks application should work very well for this. It's free, pretty, syncs with iOS devices, and can open PDF's and ePubs.
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A secure, private, searchable online document storage service
I use SpiderOak in preference to DropBox.
I do so because it is end to end encrypted (your documents are encrypted at your PC before uploading and not decrypted on the server, but on the destination ...
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Project documentation repository
Alfresco has all of the features you have listed:
web-based: Yes there is a web interface, among other interfaces like FTP and CMIS
Allows download of documents via HTTP/S: Yes, and upload too
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Document/assets versioning and lock software
I would suggest taking a look at Mercurial:
Open Sourced & Gratis
Cross Platform
Fast
Distributed VCS like git
User friendly compared to git in my personal opinion especially for users less ...
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Document/assets versioning and lock software
I would advise you to store source code in Git (or another tool dedicated to source code) and manage your digital assets using real digital asset management (DAM) software like Alfresco or NemakiWare (...
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Open Source document management system
I found Kimios DMS and SeedDMS winch is continuation of a project known as LetoDMS. the Kimios DMS is written in Java so you'll need to run it on Tomcat, Jboss or a compatible application server that ...
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RFP Management system
I would suggest taking a look at the Sphinx document generation system originally written to document python but it can be and is used extenensivly for other document generation.
With it you can ...
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Document edition with changes tracking, on Android
It sounds like you want Google Docs.
https://www.viwoinc.com/google-docs-has-full-track-changes-word-integration/
If it's not installed by default on your Android device then you can get it here:
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What's the best approach for archiving/storing many files to easily access them later?
Maybe you should consider Owncloud? Here is a quote from it:
Access your data from all your devices, on an open platform you can extend and modify.
The way I often introduce OwnCloud to somebody ...
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I am looking for Version Control for office documents
SVN is actually worth a shot. TortoiseSVN has facilities to diff Office files (at least, doc(x) and xls(x)), it looks like this:
Though there are easy to install SVN servers with GUI like VisualSVN, ...
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