I, Librarian
Organize PDF papers and office documents. It provides a lot of extra features for students and research groups both in industry and academia.
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Still maintained? Slowing: no commits in the last 90 days, last push Dec 2025.
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At a glance
I, Librarian quick facts
- Health score
- 38/100 STALE
- Stars
- 356
- Last commit
- 11 months ago (Dec 2025)
- Latest release
- 5.11.3, Dec 2025
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "You can download and execute installers for Windows 10 plus a DEB package and a console installer for Ubuntu, Debian, and its derivatives. An installer for Mac OS X is not available. These installers will install and/or configure Apache and PHP for you. If you don't want that, follow the instructions below to install manually."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
I, Librarian scores 38/100, #14 of 17 in Document Management: 0 commits in the last 90 days earn 0.0 of 35 points, the latest release (5.11.3, 11 months ago) earns 17.9 of 25, 356 stars add 10.2 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and no advertised Docker image leaves the final 10 unclaimed. That places it in the stale band (below 40). The biggest shortfall is commit activity, worth 35.0 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity biggest shortfall 0.0 / 35
0 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 17.9 / 25
5.11.3 released 11 months ago
- Stars 10.2 / 20
356 stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 0
- Last 90 days
- 3
- Last 12 months
- 11 months ago
- Last push
Ranked #14 of 17 tools in Document Management by health , between Signature PDF (#13) and Mayan EDMS (#15) .
Details
| Licence | GPL-3.0 |
| Platforms | PHP |
| Latest release | 5.11.3 · 11 months ago |
| Stars | 356 |
| Open issues | 16 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | mkucej/i-librarian-free ↗ |
I, Librarian vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with I, Librarian (Document Management), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paperless-ngx | 99 | 47k | GPL-3.0 | today |
| Docuseal | 97 | 19k | AGPL-3.0 | 4 days ago |
| SimpleDMS | 89 | 170 | AGPL-3.0 | yesterday |
| Papermerge | 79 | 550 | Apache-2.0 | yesterday |
| I, Librarian (this tool) | 38 | 356 | GPL-3.0 | 11 months ago |
| EveryDocs | 33 | 428 | GPL-3.0 | 3 months ago |
I, Librarian: common questions
Is I, Librarian still maintained?
I, Librarian had 0 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 11 months ago; the latest tagged release, 5.11.3, is from 11 months ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.