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Mayan EDMSvstextsnap

Two self-hosted projects, compared on the numbers selfhost.directory tracks live: score, popularity, release cadence and setup effort.

Mayan EDMStextsnap
Score58/10045/100
Rank in category#18 of 46 in Document Management#8 of 12 in Document Processing
GitHub stars672196
Stars, last 30 days+0+0
Stable releases, 12 months02
Latest release—v0.4.0 · 29 Sept 2026
SetupModerateEasy
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseGPL-2.0-onlyMIT
Main languagePythonPython

Which one should you pick?

Mayan EDMS scores 58/100 against 45/100 for textsnap, so it is the safer default.

textsnap ships more often: 2 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for Mayan EDMS.

If you want the quickest setup, textsnap is easier to run; Mayan EDMS needs more configuration.

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