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Hello, this is my first attempt to describe a tool or feature that I would whish to exist within KDE or KDE-PIM/Kontact.
I know that there are a number of web-based or client/server tools for document-management and most of them are opensource. But most of them are also directed towards small or midsize companies which have an internal structure of dedicated servers for this purpose.
But for a home office of any kind, these tools are far to bloated, putting aside that most soho users don't have a dedicated server running anyway.

So the idea is, to realize a program/tool for documentmanagement that runs as a stand alone tool (like kmail oder kaddress) but also as a plugin within KDEPIM/Kontact. in combination with akonadi and nepomuk, the options to provide linking of documents to contacts, mails, projects, tasks and dates could be awesome and facilitate the work for soho-users.
I know that some features like versioning will not easy to be realized because of the questionable integrity of the documents its based on (docs existing in "normal" folders might easily be deleted) but maybe there is a solutiuon to this.
Since I have no idea how to write such an application I would like to ask the community, whether such an app can be created.

Thanks for your interest
Jay

Addition: This would - at least in the long run - also imply a tool for scanning, ocr and creation of searchable PDF-files. As far as I can see, all necessary parts of such a tool are currently available as opensource -tools (skanlite/tessaract-ocr/ghostscript), or am I terribly wrong in that?