Would a desktop document management application be something that people would want?
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Hello... I have developed a complete desktop document management system that is in its final phases of completion. The application can currently store PDF, Doc, Docx, and TXT files based on any of up to 5 category levels. Currently, this application is completely developed with WPF with a Firebird Embedded Database Engine. I would like to ask if the community members here could see any general interest if I eventually released it for downloading with additional file types being allowed for minimally charged fees (ie: $1.99 per extension). Any comments would be greatly appreciated. Thank you...
Steve Naidamast Sr. Software Engineer Black Falcon Software, Inc. blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
Yes, definitely interested. This field is of great interest to me. You're not planning to open source it though, from what you say?
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Hello... I have developed a complete desktop document management system that is in its final phases of completion. The application can currently store PDF, Doc, Docx, and TXT files based on any of up to 5 category levels. Currently, this application is completely developed with WPF with a Firebird Embedded Database Engine. I would like to ask if the community members here could see any general interest if I eventually released it for downloading with additional file types being allowed for minimally charged fees (ie: $1.99 per extension). Any comments would be greatly appreciated. Thank you...
Steve Naidamast Sr. Software Engineer Black Falcon Software, Inc. blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
I'd be interested if it had integrated scanner support.
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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To my knowledge, Google Desktop is not a document management system but a word-processor...
Steve Naidamast Sr. Software Engineer Black Falcon Software, Inc. blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
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Then your knowledge is lacking.
Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: "If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
Google Desktop is not a document management system, no matter how you slice or dice it. You should review what these types of systems do. For example, SharePoint is a document management system for the enterprise. Its features in no way resemble anything that Google Desktop would provide except for the search mechanism.
Steve Naidamast Sr. Software Engineer Black Falcon Software, Inc. blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
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Google Desktop is not a document management system, no matter how you slice or dice it. You should review what these types of systems do. For example, SharePoint is a document management system for the enterprise. Its features in no way resemble anything that Google Desktop would provide except for the search mechanism.
Steve Naidamast Sr. Software Engineer Black Falcon Software, Inc. blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
Steve Naidamast wrote:
Google Desktop is not a document management system
Depends on your definition.
Steve Naidamast wrote:
For example, SharePoint is a document management system for the enterprise. Its features in no way resemble anything that Google Desktop would provide except for the search mechanism.
Ehr, and what? So you got a hardon for Document Management and SharePoint. Wanna try to explain what is wrong with Google Documents?
Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: "If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Hello... I have developed a complete desktop document management system that is in its final phases of completion. The application can currently store PDF, Doc, Docx, and TXT files based on any of up to 5 category levels. Currently, this application is completely developed with WPF with a Firebird Embedded Database Engine. I would like to ask if the community members here could see any general interest if I eventually released it for downloading with additional file types being allowed for minimally charged fees (ie: $1.99 per extension). Any comments would be greatly appreciated. Thank you...
Steve Naidamast Sr. Software Engineer Black Falcon Software, Inc. blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
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Steve Naidamast wrote:
Google Desktop is not a document management system
Depends on your definition.
Steve Naidamast wrote:
For example, SharePoint is a document management system for the enterprise. Its features in no way resemble anything that Google Desktop would provide except for the search mechanism.
Ehr, and what? So you got a hardon for Document Management and SharePoint. Wanna try to explain what is wrong with Google Documents?
Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: "If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
Why do you have to always be a jerk, Eddy?
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My application is not designed for business use but personal use...
Steve Naidamast Sr. Software Engineer Black Falcon Software, Inc. blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
Do personal users actually think about organizing their files? I think it all goes to Documents in some form.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it. ― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Do personal users actually think about organizing their files? I think it all goes to Documents in some form.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it. ― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
I don't really know. That is why I put the question out to the forum. From the answers I have been seeing it appears that outside of researchers, students, and the like there would be little call for my application. Had there been more positive feedback, I would have considered upgrading the application to a multi-user, department level application using something like WCF as the communication medium.
Steve Naidamast Sr. Software Engineer Black Falcon Software, Inc. blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
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Hello... I have developed a complete desktop document management system that is in its final phases of completion. The application can currently store PDF, Doc, Docx, and TXT files based on any of up to 5 category levels. Currently, this application is completely developed with WPF with a Firebird Embedded Database Engine. I would like to ask if the community members here could see any general interest if I eventually released it for downloading with additional file types being allowed for minimally charged fees (ie: $1.99 per extension). Any comments would be greatly appreciated. Thank you...
Steve Naidamast Sr. Software Engineer Black Falcon Software, Inc. blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
Doubtful. Post your project on github or as an article here on Code Project. You can then get download stats to find out if there is any interest. If so then launch a commercial version.
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Back in the dark ages of 1990 I worked at a place that among other things resold "Document Management Systems" While this behemoth that ran windows 2.2 (really) could only save as tiff, it could text search whole folders via ocr. This permitted scanning truck loads of records then at a later date look for a string find the results that linked to documents and high-lit the stings in the document(s).
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Not all document types are searchable as plain text.
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Steve Naidamast wrote:
Google Desktop is not a document management system
Depends on your definition.
Steve Naidamast wrote:
For example, SharePoint is a document management system for the enterprise. Its features in no way resemble anything that Google Desktop would provide except for the search mechanism.
Ehr, and what? So you got a hardon for Document Management and SharePoint. Wanna try to explain what is wrong with Google Documents?
Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: "If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
How about the fact that Google Docs are barely compatible with each other and don't allow live content embedding between documents.
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Hello... I have developed a complete desktop document management system that is in its final phases of completion. The application can currently store PDF, Doc, Docx, and TXT files based on any of up to 5 category levels. Currently, this application is completely developed with WPF with a Firebird Embedded Database Engine. I would like to ask if the community members here could see any general interest if I eventually released it for downloading with additional file types being allowed for minimally charged fees (ie: $1.99 per extension). Any comments would be greatly appreciated. Thank you...
Steve Naidamast Sr. Software Engineer Black Falcon Software, Inc. blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
What does your document management system do? Store docs? Windows does that. What else?
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Hello... I have developed a complete desktop document management system that is in its final phases of completion. The application can currently store PDF, Doc, Docx, and TXT files based on any of up to 5 category levels. Currently, this application is completely developed with WPF with a Firebird Embedded Database Engine. I would like to ask if the community members here could see any general interest if I eventually released it for downloading with additional file types being allowed for minimally charged fees (ie: $1.99 per extension). Any comments would be greatly appreciated. Thank you...
Steve Naidamast Sr. Software Engineer Black Falcon Software, Inc. blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
Yes, I think there could be a use for such an application. I am a big user of One Note, and I love it, but I realize I'm vulnerable to the One Note database getting corrupted and me losing everything. If, instead of One Note, I kept my information in various file formats such as Word, PowerPoint, and Excel, then a document management application that allowed me to access those files as easily as if they were together like in One Note would be great. I would perhaps have to keep files in a particular folder in order for them to be scanned together, but it would have the advantage of being independent, standard formats (even text files and PDFs) and I wouldn't be so dependent on a single application. Do you have any screen shots available?
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I don't really know. That is why I put the question out to the forum. From the answers I have been seeing it appears that outside of researchers, students, and the like there would be little call for my application. Had there been more positive feedback, I would have considered upgrading the application to a multi-user, department level application using something like WCF as the communication medium.
Steve Naidamast Sr. Software Engineer Black Falcon Software, Inc. blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
I wouldn't be too hard on yourself. Your informal survey has a biased population (from a science of surveys point of view). I do keep my personal documents managed manually. I also work on an enterprise level document manager (called Doc Man), which is just a small piece of the overall program. From what I've seen, I'm the exception for how well organized my documents are. I find Windows Search frustratingly stupid. I use grepWin (freeware) to deal with that, which only searches plaintext documents. If I had a binary searcher, or one that could search PDF's, Open Office files, and Microsoft Office files, then I would be set. If I had to manually tag items, then I wouldn't bother with it. That's an extra layer of work that wouldn't be worth the effort. Hope that helps.
Bond Keep all things as simple as possible, but no simpler. -said someone, somewhere
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Hello... I have developed a complete desktop document management system that is in its final phases of completion. The application can currently store PDF, Doc, Docx, and TXT files based on any of up to 5 category levels. Currently, this application is completely developed with WPF with a Firebird Embedded Database Engine. I would like to ask if the community members here could see any general interest if I eventually released it for downloading with additional file types being allowed for minimally charged fees (ie: $1.99 per extension). Any comments would be greatly appreciated. Thank you...
Steve Naidamast Sr. Software Engineer Black Falcon Software, Inc. blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
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Hello... I have developed a complete desktop document management system that is in its final phases of completion. The application can currently store PDF, Doc, Docx, and TXT files based on any of up to 5 category levels. Currently, this application is completely developed with WPF with a Firebird Embedded Database Engine. I would like to ask if the community members here could see any general interest if I eventually released it for downloading with additional file types being allowed for minimally charged fees (ie: $1.99 per extension). Any comments would be greatly appreciated. Thank you...
Steve Naidamast Sr. Software Engineer Black Falcon Software, Inc. blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
Long ago, I used AltaVista desktop search which did this - it was great. Unfortunately, it disappeared along with the rest of AltaVista. I currently use everything (from voidtools - great app) - if your application could filter by file name, file type, and content, I could see myself using it.
"Qulatiy is Job #1"
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Long ago, I used AltaVista desktop search which did this - it was great. Unfortunately, it disappeared along with the rest of AltaVista. I currently use everything (from voidtools - great app) - if your application could filter by file name, file type, and content, I could see myself using it.
"Qulatiy is Job #1"
The application does not use filtering in the sense you are thinking about. Instead, it uses categorical levels, which you would define. For example, you could set up a master-level of C#; then secondary levels for PDF, TXT, and Doc, DocX files. Or C#, then WPF, then PDF, TXT, Doc and DocX. This would be 3 levels of categories. The application allows up to 5 currently... The base version is completely free.
Steve Naidamast Sr. Software Engineer Black Falcon Software, Inc. blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
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Hello... I have developed a complete desktop document management system that is in its final phases of completion. The application can currently store PDF, Doc, Docx, and TXT files based on any of up to 5 category levels. Currently, this application is completely developed with WPF with a Firebird Embedded Database Engine. I would like to ask if the community members here could see any general interest if I eventually released it for downloading with additional file types being allowed for minimally charged fees (ie: $1.99 per extension). Any comments would be greatly appreciated. Thank you...
Steve Naidamast Sr. Software Engineer Black Falcon Software, Inc. blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
For everyone who kindly provided me with some input regarding my desktop document management application, I have put up the Help File (CHM) in my online, download file storage server. You may download the file from the following link... CDOCS 1.0.1 I had stopped working on the project some time ago, when I had nearly completed it. In fact, I believe that the development had been completed but with additional testing required. The Help File should be relatively complete, which has both images and text describing all ofthe functionality of this application...
Steve Naidamast Sr. Software Engineer Black Falcon Software, Inc. blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
