[Tracker] Tracker for networked home document management

[Aaron Whitehouse <lists whitehouse org nz>]

Hi,

We are moving countries and have scanned all our paper documents into
PDFs. We are looking for a simple document management system to index
these many files and make them easier to tag, organise and find.
Ideally, we would store the documents on our home server, and access
them on our laptop(s) over the network.

I originally looked at OpenKM, but have decided it may be overkill for
such a simple use case. We don't really need users or account management
as we both really want full access to all the documents. I am wondering
if something simpler, like Tracker, would be better for our situation
and would be keen for your thoughts.

I have a few questions about Tracker that I was hoping you could answer:
1) Would we be able to store the documents on the server and access them
from another computer? I understand that Tracker stores its index
separately from the files, so it wouldn't be possible to simply share
the "Documents" directory across the network and point both Tracker
instances to it.

2) We are currently intending to have just one laptop, so could store
the files on the laptop (in a folder accessible by both users on the
laptop). Would two users then be able to use the same sets of tags etc?

3) Another feature of OpenKM that appealed was its ability to OCR
documents and allow the user to search the full text. Is this possible
with Tracker?

4) Most of our documents were OCRd when we scanned them and are
searchable PDFs. I assume that Tracker could index these like any other
PDF. Does this sound right?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Aaron