DocuCan

I spent a long time and many internet searches looking for a simple and affordable document management solution that could be used at home. The requirements were simple - to import documents, tag them, and find them again easily and quickly when needed. No complex menus, no enterprise style features, no hidden options. But the search for such an app was fruitless.

Open source and cheap solutions were hard to use and the user interfaces not at all friendly, they didn't make document management easy at all.

Then there were the business and enterprise solutions, expensive and full of features not required for someone at home needing simple document management.

So I decided to take my many years of programming experience, and develop a solution for myself. Work started on DocuCan in September 2013. As the application was developed, I was using it for my everyday needs and improved it to be the simple solution I was looking for.

I realised that DocuCan could be an application that others might also find useful. So I started working on making DocuCan more robust and adding new features, eventually having the application ready for beta testing in mid-June 2014.