Mayan (or Mayan EDMS) is a web-based free/libre

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for managing documents within an organization. All functionality is available in its free public version. It has an active community of volunteers and third-party service and support providers. Its largest installation as of June 2012 is Puerto Rico's main permit agency (20,000+ documents).

History and features

Mayan started as a project whose only requirement was the storage of PDF files for a government agency transitioning to an all electronic registration process and has grown into a general system since then. It is designed to be easy to migrate to different physical computers. It is written in

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using the Django framework. Features include document versioning, electronic signature verification, multilingual support, discussion tools, user-defined metadata and unique identifiers, and roles support. Mayan EDMS was featured on the

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