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title: Install OpenPaperwork on Debian using the Snap Store | Snapcraft
description: Get the latest version of OpenPaperwork for on Debian - Personal document
  manager
url: https://snapcraft.io/install/openpaperwork-snap/debian
---

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# Install OpenPaperwork on **Debian**

# OpenPaperwork (openpaperwork-snap)

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[Install](https://snapcraft.io/install/openpaperwork-snap/debian#install)

#### Personal document manager

Unofficial Snap of **OpenPaperwork**, a personal document manager for Linux.
Scan, organize, and search documents with OCR. This Snap includes the full
Tesseract OCR (`tesseract-ocr-all`) for all languages.
Start tagging your documents and openpaperworks will automatically
apply add smart tags to future documents, this makes organization almost magical.

Start CLI with: `openpaperwork-snap.paperwork-cli`
or: `openpaperwork-snap.paperwork-json`

This Snap includes a small YAD script for convenient mass export of
searchable PDFs from OpenPaperwork: `openpaperwork-snap.export-pdf`

**Make sure to enable the necessary permissions** for this Snap.
Open Terminal and connect all plugs :
`snap connections openpaperwork-snap | awk '$3 == "-" {print $2}' | while read plug; do sudo snap connect $plug; done`

### Package name

* openpaperwork-snap

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### License

* GPL-3.0-or-later

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### Last updated

* 7 August 2026 - latest/stable
* 19 December 2025 - latest/edge

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### Websites

* [github.com/Tibsun75/openpaperwork-snap](https://github.com/Tibsun75/openpaperwork-snap "https://github.com/Tibsun75/openpaperwork-snap")
* [gitlab.gnome.org](https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/OpenPaperwork/paperwork.git "https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/OpenPaperwork/paperwork.git")

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### Contact

* [github.com/Tibsun75](https://github.com/Tibsun75 "https://github.com/Tibsun75")

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### Source code

* [github.com/Tibsun75/openpaperwork-snap/blob/main/snapcraft.yaml](https://github.com/Tibsun75/openpaperwork-snap/blob/main/snapcraft.yaml "https://github.com/Tibsun75/openpaperwork-snap/blob/main/snapcraft.yaml")

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### Report a bug

* [github.com/Tibsun75/openpaperwork-snap/issues](https://github.com/Tibsun75/openpaperwork-snap/issues "https://github.com/Tibsun75/openpaperwork-snap/issues")

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##### Report a Snap Store violation

* [Report this Snap](https://snapcraft.io/install/openpaperwork-snap/debian#report-snap-modal)

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## Enable snaps on Debian and install OpenPaperwork

Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully.

Snaps are discoverable and installable from the [Snap Store](https://snapcraft.io/store), an app store with an audience of millions.

### Enable snapd

On Debian 9 (Stretch) and newer, snap can be installed directly from the command line:

```
sudo apt update
sudo apt install snapd
```

After this, install the snapd snap in order to get the latest snapd:

```
sudo snap install snapd
```

### Install OpenPaperwork

To install OpenPaperwork, simply use the following command:

```
sudo snap install openpaperwork-snap
```

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