Open Source Document Management & E-Signatures Tools

Open source document management & e-signatures tools

projects 19 combined stars ★ 118K refresh nightly

Document Management & E-Signatures is one of the most active slices of the open source world — the 6 projects below are ranked by GitHub stars, which makes this page roughly a community-voted shortlist rather than a vendor-curated catalogue. Every card shows the license and the last-commit date, so you can filter out the two failure modes of free software in one glance: restrictive licensing that blocks your use case, and abandonment that leaves you maintaining a fork. When two projects look comparable, prefer the one with more recent activity and the more permissive license (MIT/Apache-2.0 over AGPL) unless copyleft specifically serves your goals. Hover into any project for its full README — the documentation quality is usually the honest tell of engineering quality.

All Document Management & E-Signatures tools

pdfcraft ★ 19K

An open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Adobe Acrobat built in pure Rust

rank001 licenseApache-2.0 written inRust typeDocument Management & E-Signatures

Docuseal ★ 19K

Legally binding document signing for individuals and teams

rank002 licenseAGPL-3.0 written inRuby typeDocument Management & E-Signatures

bentopdf ★ 16K

The Privacy First PDF Toolkit

rank003 licenseAGPL-3.0 written inJavaScript typeDocument Management & E-Signatures

Documenso ★ 16K

Secure, open-source document signing for everyone

rank004 licenseAGPL-3.0 written inTypeScript typeDocument Management & E-Signatures

Papermark ★ 9.3K

Open-source document sharing with powerful analytics

rank005 licenseNOASSERTION written inTypeScript typeDocument Management & E-Signatures

pdfcpu ★ 8.9K

PDF tooling for Go and the command line.

rank006 licenseApache-2.0 written inGo typeDocument Management & E-Signatures

OpenSign ★ 7.2K

Secure, customizable e-signatures for modern businesses

rank007 licenseNOASSERTION written inJavaScript typeDocument Management & E-Signatures

Papra ★ 5.7K

Organize and secure your documents in one central hub

rank008 licenseAGPL-3.0 written inTypeScript typeDocument Management & E-Signatures

mm-wiki ★ 3.8K

MM-Wiki 一个轻量级的企业知识分享与团队协同软件，可用于快速构建企业 Wiki 和团队知识分享平台。部署方便，使用简单，帮助团队构建一个信息共享、文档管理的协作环境。

rank009 licenseMIT written inGo typeDocument Management & E-Signatures

organize ★ 3.2K

The file management automation tool.

rank010 licenseMIT written inPython typeDocument Management & E-Signatures

community ★ 2.4K

Modern Confluence alternative designed for internal & external docs, built with Go + EmberJS

rank011 licenseAGPL-3.0 written inJavaScript typeDocument Management & E-Signatures

docspell ★ 2.3K

Assist in organizing your piles of documents, resulting from scanners, e-mails and other sources with miminal effort.

rank012 licenseAGPL-3.0 written inElm typeDocument Management & E-Signatures

PaperKnife ★ 1.5K

Privacy-first PDF utility (Zero-Server Architecture). Merge, split, compress, and edit PDFs 100% locally on your device. No uploads, no servers, no tracking.

rank013 licenseAGPL-3.0 written inTypeScript typeDocument Management & E-Signatures

pdfx ★ 1.1K

A free-floating 2D Canvas for processing multiple PDF files simultaneously

rank014 licenseMIT written inTypeScript typeDocument Management & E-Signatures

signaturepdf ★ 832

Free open-source web software for signing PDF (alone or with others) and also organize pages, edit metadata and compress pdf

rank015 licenseAGPL-3.0 written inJavaScript typeDocument Management & E-Signatures

browserytools ★ 719

152 free browser-based tools in 17 languages. Your files and text are processed in your browser — no uploads, no accounts, no ads. Image & on-device AI tools, P

rank016 licenseAGPL-3.0 written inTypeScript typeDocument Management & E-Signatures

papermerge-core ★ 551

Papermerge OSS

rank017 licenseApache-2.0 written inPython typeDocument Management & E-Signatures

SynologyDDNSCloudflareMultidomain ★ 538

Synology DDNS Cloudflare service provider with multidomains and subdomains

rank018 licenseMIT written inPHP typeDocument Management & E-Signatures

Wraft ★ 167

Scale document creation with automated workflows

rank019 licenseAGPL-3.0 written inElixir typeDocument Management & E-Signatures

Frequently asked questions

How many open source Document Management & E-Signatures tools are there?

This registry tracks 19 open source Document Management & E-Signatures projects, with 118,301 combined GitHub stars. The list is ranked by stars and refreshed nightly.

What is the most popular open source Document Management & E-Signatures project?

pdfcraft leads this category with 19,220 GitHub stars, followed by Docuseal.

Are these Document Management & E-Signatures tools free?

Yes — every project listed here is open source. Some also offer paid hosted versions alongside the free self-hosted option; the licence for each project is shown on its card.