# Semi-Document Management System with Elasticsearh

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/semi-document-management-system-with-elasticsearh/105064>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [October 24, 2017, 12:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/semi-document-management-system-with-elasticsearh/105064 "2017-10-24T12:32:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![arnydo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f9ae1b/32.png) [@arnydo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/arnydo)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2017, 12:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/semi-document-management-system-with-elasticsearh/105064/1 "2017-10-24T12:32:27Z")

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Hello, I am looking for some ideas on a project I am looking at starting.

Big picture is I would like to build a semi-document management system. The primary goal is to have multiple indexes to search for the documents (PDFs, TIFFs, etc) that we have collected.  
My question is, I don't really want to only store the files within Elasticsearch (as bytes), rather, I would like to store them as files in a folder structure (or similar) while still having the ingest features available.

Is this something that can be done? What ideas do you have and what is the best practice for this?

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2017, 5:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/semi-document-management-system-with-elasticsearh/105064/2 "2017-10-24T17:45:01Z")

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If you want to do that, then do it external to Elasticsearch and then store some meta-data about the docs in Elasticsearch to search on.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2017, 5:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/semi-document-management-system-with-elasticsearh/105064/3 "2017-11-21T17:45:22Z")

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Closed on November 21, 2017, 5:45pm UTC

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