Document Management Lite

bnick · 12-16-2019, 08:06 PM

I rarely, if ever, post, so I'll be brief. I have used Calibre as a quasi Document Management System for years now. If you think about it, treating a monthly bill 'statement' is no different than a 'book'.
This works reasonably well with virtual libraries & tags, etc. for organization, but I wonder if using the entire folder overhead is justifiable? The pros are that the s/w is rock solid and that today's cpu's make cycles obsolete. The cons are that I believe it is more inefficient than a SQL-type data structure of some type.
I would be willing to develop code in (presumably) Python if I had some direction that it all fit into some cohesive whole. I do NOT want to re-invent the wheel. If this is old territory, please let me know, so I may inform myself.
At any rate, I look forward to comments from all the wise gurus amongst you all

kovidgoyal · 12-16-2019, 10:31 PM

calibre libraries are SQLite databases, look at the file metadata.db in the calibre library folder.

12-16-2019, 08:06 PM	#1
bnick Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2019 Device: none	Document Management Lite I rarely, if ever, post, so I'll be brief. I have used Calibre as a quasi Document Management System for years now. If you think about it, treating a monthly bill 'statement' is no different than a 'book'. This works reasonably well with virtual libraries & tags, etc. for organization, but I wonder if using the entire folder overhead is justifiable? The pros are that the s/w is rock solid and that today's cpu's make cycles obsolete. The cons are that I believe it is more inefficient than a SQL-type data structure of some type. I would be willing to develop code in (presumably) Python if I had some direction that it all fit into some cohesive whole. I do NOT want to re-invent the wheel. If this is old territory, please let me know, so I may inform myself. At any rate, I look forward to comments from all the wise gurus amongst you all

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12-16-2019, 10:31 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,604 Karma: 28548974 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	calibre libraries are SQLite databases, look at the file metadata.db in the calibre library folder.

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