OpenDocMan is an open source document management system, also known as an open source DMS, written in PHP and it runs inside any popular web server. Here are some of the key features of the document management software:
Server
- Runs inside any PHP5-enabled web server (Apache2, IIS, etc.)
- MySQL 5
- Runs on all modern operating systems: Linux, Unix, Mac Os X, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 7
- Very lightweight and easy to install
- Automatic installer and updater
- All files are stored locally on the web server for easy backup
- 100% Web Based Interface: No FTP required. Upload files directly from your web browser.
Documents
- Unlimited File Types: Add any file type to the system
- Meta data fields for each file
- Assign a department/category to each file
- Check-out feature to prevent over-writing of edits
- Revision history
- Documents are stored physically on the server
- File expiration
- Create custom document properties to match your companies needs
Workflow
- Automated document review process
- Automated file expiration process
- Reviewer can approve or reject a new document or a changed document
- E-mail notification options prior to and after a review
Search
- Quick-browse search by author, department, or category
- Full search by meta-data, author, department, category, file name, comments,etc.
- No external indexing processes required
Security
- Secure URL feature to obfuscate URL parameters
- Fine grained user access control for each file
- Departmental access control for each file
- Three user types: User, Admin, and Super-Admin
- Control the size limit of files independent of higher server limits
Multiple Language Support
- Chinese
- Croatian
- Dutch
- English
- French
- German
- Italian
- Portuguese
- Spanish
- Turkish
Translation to portugese
If you would like to provide a Portuguese translation that would be great.
can workflow do approval process as parrallel (not single person authorization got approval)
It is first-come first-server for approvers.
A news feed feature would be awesome. Allowing me to post news to my employee’s. This would then be even better if I could have a choice to post it do individual departments or everyone!
An example could be to tell the finance team they are doing an amazing job! And then post a news feed to the developers telling them to pull up their socks and get a move on!
Meanwhile posting another feed to the whole company to inform everyone on the daily/weekly successes and failures! 
This feature would be amazing!!!
Set the System to use SSL for user connections to add security. Is that a separate WebServer setting?
How long we have to wait no the next final version?
I had try the Opendocman, but i still confused about ;
- How to make another user to check in our document that we upload?
- How to set expiration document? i dont see the figure on the menu
Thanks
I’ll help you with a Swedish translation as soon as i get my account approved
This program looks great, but I have a question. Is it possible to load more than one file at a time? Load the whole folder at once?
Does it OCR the data in a document? We are looking for one that will OCR and index the documents.
OCR is not supported. ODM requires the files to be on you computer already.