---
title: Install Paperman on Pop!_OS using the Snap Store | Snapcraft
description: Get the latest version of Paperman for on Pop!_OS - Electronic filing
  cabinet - scan, print, stack, arrange
url: https://snapcraft.io/install/paperman/pop
---

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# Install Paperman on **Pop!\_OS**

# Paperman

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[Install](https://snapcraft.io/install/paperman/pop#install)

#### Electronic filing cabinet - scan, print, stack, arrange

Paperman is an electronic filing cabinet: it scans paper into stacks of
pages, filed in folders, and lets you view, arrange, annotate, print,
search and send them. It reads and writes PDF, JPEG and its own variant
of PaperPort's .max format.

**Scanning**, fast, from sheet-fed document scanners such as the Ricoh
(formerly Fujitsu) fi-series, with presets:

* pages cut to the sheet, and straightened, by the scanner
* pages without colour stored as grey or mono, while a page with a
  coloured mark or note on it stays in colour
* blank pages found and left out
* sheets fed sideways turned upright, and sheets longer than any paper
  size, such as receipts, scanned whole
* a misfeed or jam waits to be cleared, and loses no pages

**Filing**:

* a simple view of stacks and pages, with previews
* move pages in and out of stacks, and stacks between folders
* print stacks and pages, including their annotations
* convert to and from PDF, JPEG and TIFF, and unfold scanned booklets
* read the text of pages (OCR) and search it
* email or copy files as PDF
* full undo and redo

Paperman's search server can keep papers on another machine, which the
desktop shows beside its own, and which an Android or iPhone app can
browse.

**Setting up**: to scan from a USB scanner, and to print to the
machine's printers, connect the snap to them:

```
 sudo snap connect paperman:raw-usb
 sudo snap connect paperman:cups-control
```

A network scanner which is not found by searching the network can be
named in a file of the back end's configuration, in
~/snap/paperman/common/sane.d, such as finet.conf with the address of a
Ricoh fi-series scanner. See <https://paperman.readthedocs.io>

### Package name

* paperman

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### License

* GPL-2.0-or-later

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### Last updated

* 9 October 2026 - latest/stable

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## Enable snaps on Pop!\_OS and install Paperman

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

Snap can be installed on Pop!\_OS from the command line. Open Terminal from the Applications launcher and type the following:

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

Either log out and back in again, or restart your system, to ensure snap’s paths are updated correctly.

### Install Paperman

To install Paperman, simply use the following command:

```
sudo snap install paperman
```

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