Are there any personal/small group scale open source digital archiving tools I can look into?
Some family members are looking into scanning and sharing old paper documents and photos from many decades ago. The likely number of people interested in accessing the information would likely be dozens to (at most) hundreds, and the amount of data is probably in the "several gigabytes" range instead of terabytes, so scaling up isn't likely to be a concern.
After a short amount of research (mostly wikipedia), the things I am finding are geared toward institutional archiving with substantial configuration requirements (#dSpace is the one I looked at, among others).
Ideally what they are asking to be able to do is perform OCR + full text searches on scanned PDF documents. For PDFs and image files (also scanned), they want to add metadata (e.g. date, location, people), and have a basic web frontend to be able to search and share access to it.
I talked with them about #Wordpress and #Nextcloud as examples, both of which could handle the file storage and web frontend, but I am not sure how they would do for the archival features they were asking about. Are there add-on tools that would make one of these usable for long term archiving and sharing?
I think that it would be optimal to be able to run on a commodity VM or bare metal hardware running *BSD/Linux so they can move where it is hosted as needed over the years.