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Open Source empowers you. Where a software-as-a-service might allow you to tweak and build connectors, with Nextcloud you can go all the way and enhance the server itself or apps from other authors with new API’s and core functionality.
Contribute to NextcloudFeatured community app: Nextcloud OCR
The app uses tesseract-js in the browser in order to extract text from images (png, jpeg, tiff) and PDFs and saves the output file to the source folder in nextcloud. That for example enables you to search in it.
Read the interviewFeatured community app: Digital Imaging for Medicine
The DICOM Viewer allows the user to display and manipulate DICOM images with a streamlined sidebar and viewer, all without leaving Nextcloud. The sidebar parses DICOM files and displays all DICOM attributes, such as Patient ID, Patient Name, and Study Date/Time, in a convenient details panel. A critical search feature on the sidebar enables the user to quickly search for specific DICOM attributes.
Read about the DICOM viewerNextcloud Include
Diversity strengthens a community. The Nextcloud Include initiative helps underrepresented groups to join the Nextcloud project, building an inclusive and diverse space where we collaborate and develop world class software.
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Big audience
There are between 200.000 and 300.000 Nextcloud servers on the web with tens of millions of users between them. A big audience exists for functionality which extends the most popular self-hosted productivity platform. The most downloaded apps on our app store are installed on over 100.000 servers and have millions of user
Free promotion
We want you to be successful! If you create an app, extension or integration, Nextcloud will help you promote it. We are happy to work with you on a post for our blog, share the app over social media and you can present it at our conference.
Business opportunity
If you build an app, script, extension or tool as a business endeavor, we will be happy to support your effort. We love our ecosystem and want you to benefit of it! Perhaps we can commercialize it together, with us reselling your product or feature to our customers.
Featured community app: Cospend
Nextcloud Cospend is a group/shared budget manager. It was inspired by the great IHateMoney.
You can use it when you share a house, when you go on vacation with friends, whenever you share money with others.
