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Document Management Software?

fjmeat

fjmeat

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I need a way to orgainze and search massive amounts of .doc & .pdf files at our office. Is there anyway to move all these docs to a seperate file server running some type of software, that users within the network could search through?

Thanks for any advice!
 
Solr/Lucene, which will happily run on top of Tomcat, all free Apache projects. I have heard that Knowledge Tree is also good, but it's spendy.

SharePoint is unpleasant, doubly so if your documents naturally have much hierarchy to them.
 
To answer this question better, I think it would be good to define what your goal is for this implementation. Are you looking to simply create a searchable repository of documents, or are you looking for something more advanced for tracking changes, collaboration etc.?
 
SVN?

No... seriously, don't use the SVN for this. That guy was seriously messed up to give non-techies an SVN and expect there to be absolutely no issues.
 
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To answer this question better, I think it would be good to define what your goal is for this implementation. Are you looking to simply create a searchable repository of documents, or are you looking for something more advanced for tracking changes, collaboration etc.?
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I work at a lawfirm. Our docs are saved currently in a shared network folder on our file server. The firm is looking for some method to organize our documents. Specifically, a user should be able to login to a program application, open a word document, edit/save the document. Changes to this document should be trackable as to which user made what revision. Further, all PDF's should be searchable (maybe not as far as the text inside the PDF, but at least the title of the PDF.) We are not looking for something too crazy or complicated. That's really it. When one or more machines search our shared network drive, it creates a horrible lag in both the user-pc performance and the file server performance.

Thanks again for your interest in this topic.
 
SharePoint Foundation 2010 with Search Server 2010 Express. It's free. If you've only seen 2007, you need to check out the new stuff in 2010. You get out of the box managed metadata fields for item tagging and this integrates with the search so that you can offer a refinement panel for users to find specific categories of items.

It meets all of the requirements you have and then some. You'll have to install a PDF iFilter to enable searching the contents of PDFs, but that's really easy: http://www.sharepointsharon.com/2010/03/sharepoint-2010-and-adobe-pdf/
 
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joshsquall said:
SharePoint Foundation 2010 with Search Server 2010 Express. It's free. If you've only seen 2007, you need to check out the new stuff in 2010. You get out of the box managed metadata fields for item tagging and this integrates with the search so that you can offer a refinement panel for users to find specific categories of items.

It meets all of the requirements you have and then some. You'll have to install a PDF iFilter to enable searching the contents of PDFs, but that's really easy: http://www.sharepointsharon.com/2010/03/sharepoint-2010-and-adobe-pdf/
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Any idea if this will read Corel WordPerfect files too?
 
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