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I've been assigned the task of finding a software program to use for document control. My company is a fairly small manufacturing company (ISO 9001 certified) with about 200 employees, maybe up to 20 would need access to the document control software (for some document changes, for document reviews and approvals). There would be only one administrator. Right now we have a document master log in excel (bare, no hyperlinks or anything), documents are MS Word (protected, authorized access) for the most part and PDFs are available on the intranet for view. There are hard copies of many of the documents distributed throughout the plant and locations are noted in the master log. We need something that will ease the burden of me having to manually check for expired documents and doing all the revisions myself. What I'm looking for is a program that includes a comprehensive document log, automatic expiration notification (via email), document check in/out, workflow for approvals of revisions, change mark-up and/or archive of older revisions, easy to search and link documents (hyperlinks, meta tags?), and my existing documents need to be linked in, not a pre-existing template for me to transfer the documents into (because we still use hard copies and they are standardized). And price is a very real issue as we have almost no budget to implement such a system. I've looked through posts on here and researched many that I've found, but I was really hoping someone could point me in the right direction if I gave specifics on what I need, maybe someone is already doing something similar. Thank you.