File Managers
File and Media managers that allow uploading and organizing files.
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Description
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File and Image Management
Application for django |
Advanced enterprise Free Open
Source DMS (document management system). |
Media-Management with
Grappelli |
:computer: :wrench: high-level
file-system operations for lazy devs. |
A Wagtail module for managing
video and audio files within the admin |
Python package for cloudinary
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A generic Django application
to attach Files (Attachments) to any model. |
Build file handling in
minutes. Upload or accept user-generated content, store, transform,… |
:billed_cap: friendly font
operations on top of fontTools. |
Media library for Django
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Checksums
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Checksums and UUID generated at document upload. The checksum and UUID functions can be customized by the user.
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Thumbnails
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Thumbnails are generated by a user configurable backend. Current choices: GraphicsMagick and ImageMagick, with initial support for OpenOffice in server mode to provide thumbnails for office documents.
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File Permissions (admin)
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Integrated role-based permissions systems
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Secure file serving
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File serving can be restricted by means of the permissions system. Documents are served directly from the application using x-sendfile or an emulation driver is not using Apache or is the x-sendfile module is not installed.
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possible (swappable file model)
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Storage Backends
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Storage is abstracted by means of a separate app that handles storage using user selectable backends. Backends are plugable classes, included are file-based and MongoDB's GridFS backends. Support for amazon's S3 is planned.
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File and Image Management Application for django
Advanced enterprise Free Open Source DMS (document management system).
Python package for cloudinary
A generic Django application to attach Files (Attachments) to any model.
Works with all Django storage backends, including those offered by django-storages
Build file handling in minutes. Upload or accept user-generated content, store, transform, optimize, and deliver images, videos, and documents to billions of users.
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Features Being Compared
Checksums
A checksum is saved with the file
Thumbnails
Thumbnails of images in browse and on the file widget.
File Permissions (admin)
Content Managers (admins) can only edit files based on permissions
Secure file serving
serve files based on permissions