I don't think Fossil is the right tool for this, take a look at Calibre
(http://calibre-ebook.com/) as an Open Source document management
system, not just an e-book reader.
Calibre manages your e-book/book/PDF collection and can sort the books
in your library by: Title, Author, Date added, Date published, Size,
Rating, Series, etc. In addition, it supports extra searchable metadata:
* Tags: A flexible system for categorizing your collection however you
like
* Comments: A long form entry that you can use for book description,
notes, reviews, etc
* User fields, so you can have a revision code, or you could include
the revision code in the title (probably better), for example
You can easily search your collection for a particular book. Calibre
supports searching any and all of the fields mentioned above. You can
construct advanced search queries by clicking the helpful "Advanced
search" button to the left of the search bar.
You can export arbitrary subsets of your collection to your hard disk
arranged in a fully customizable folder structure.
For group access Calibre has a built-in web server that allows you to
access your collection using a simple browser from any computer anywhere
in the world. It can also email your books and downloaded news to you
automatically. It has support for mobile devices, so you can browse your
collection and download books from your smartphone, Kindle, etc.
One point to note is that systems files the documents by Author/Title on
the hard disk, this is fixed and you cannot change this. However, this
is not as inflexible as it sounds, because the Author could be a Client,
Journal, or whatever you wish.
I use Calibre for my technical library with over 8000 technical papers
and have found it an indispensable tool for managing and finding
information.
--
Regards,
David Baxendale
Message: 5
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 19:31:59 -0500
From: Tomek Kott
To: Fossil SCM user's discussion
Subject: Re: [fossil-users] some questions about
fossil-as-document-repo
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Might I suggest the following two tools as better suited for this sort of
endeavor?
1) Zotero -http://www.zotero.org/
2) PDF XChange for free OCR -http://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-viewer
The first is a good pdf sorter that can work in "stand alone mode." You can
also tag things with metadata / tags / years etc.
The second is a free PDF reader that I use instead of Adobe, and recently it was updated
with free OCR. In my use the OCR has actually been very good. It can place the text of
the PDF "behind" the image, so you can select the text while viewing the
original scanned copy. I do this for bills and such at home.
I personally don't see fossil as the right tool for a document repo.
Tomek
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 16:33:09 -0600
From:c...@thomasstover.com
To:fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org
Subject: Re: [fossil-users] some questions about fossil-as-document-repo
On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 16:11:49 -0600
Carson Chittom wrote:
Yes, basically, it's the "probably should save for later" need--mostly
for legal reasons. Currently all this is in hardcopy, as I mentioned,
the volume of which has reached such a level as to be simply
impenetrable; part of the reason for putting them as images into a
repository is simply to organize them.
Well if hardcopy means scanned paper (no ocr) then it sounds like a
very large binary file set. That sort of thing quickly gets up larger
than most photo collections. The logic of the concept is sound. Report
back on how it goes in practice.
--
C. Thomas Stover
www.thomasstover.com
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