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Share Capital, Option Plans And Share-Based Payments Share Capital, Option Plans And Share-Based Payments (Schedule of Long Term Incentive Plan Expense) (Details) (USD $) In Millions, unless otherwise specified | 3 Months Ended | 9 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2015 | Mar. 31, 2014 | Mar. 31, 2015 | Mar. 31, 2014
Employee Service Share-based Compensation, Allocation of Recognized Period Costs [Line Items] |  |  |  |
Unvested stock awards compensation cost, weighted average recognition period |  |  | 2 years 7 months 6 days |
Long Term Incentive Plan |  |  |  |
Employee Service Share-based Compensation, Allocation of Recognized Period Costs [Line Items] |  |  |  |
Compensation cost not yet recognized | $ 13.4 us-gaap_EmployeeServiceShareBasedCompensationNonvestedAwardsTotalCompensationCostNotYetRecognizedShareBasedAwardsOtherThanOptions / us-gaap_PlanNameAxis = otex_LongTermIncentivePlanMember |  | $ 13.4 us-gaap_EmployeeServiceShareBasedCompensationNonvestedAwardsTotalCompensationCostNotYetRecognizedShareBasedAwardsOtherThanOptions / us-gaap_PlanNameAxis = otex_LongTermIncentivePlanMember |
Unvested stock awards compensation cost, weighted average recognition period |  |  | 1 year 11 months 1 day |
Employee Share Purchase Plan [Member] |  |  |  |
Employee Service Share-based Compensation, Allocation of Recognized Period Costs [Line Items] |  |  |  |
Cash received from employee stock purchase plan | $ 0.7 otex_CashReceivedFromEmployeeStockPurchasePlan / us-gaap_AwardTypeAxis = otex_EmployeeSharePurchasePlanMember | $ 0.8 otex_CashReceivedFromEmployeeStockPurchasePlan / us-gaap_AwardTypeAxis = otex_EmployeeSharePurchasePlanMember | $ 2.2 otex_CashReceivedFromEmployeeStockPurchasePlan / us-gaap_AwardTypeAxis = otex_EmployeeSharePurchasePlanMember | $ 2.1 otex_CashReceivedFromEmployeeStockPurchasePlan / us-gaap_AwardTypeAxis = otex_EmployeeSharePurchasePlanMember

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- Definition Weighted average period over which unrecognized compensation is expected to be recognized for equity-based compensation plans, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 718 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 2 -Subparagraph (i) -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6415400&loc=d3e5070-113901 + Details
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