--- title: Install ReadWeft — PDF, EPUB & Comic on Red Hat Enterprise Linux using the Snap Store | Snapcraft description: Get the latest version of ReadWeft — PDF, EPUB & Comic for on Red Hat Enterprise Linux - A free desktop PDF and e-book super app url: https://snapcraft.io/install/readweft/rhel --- [Canonical Snapcraft](https://snapcraft.io/) # Install ReadWeft — PDF, EPUB & Comic on **Red Hat Enterprise Linux** # ReadWeft — PDF, EPUB & Comic (readweft) [Ayan's Apps (ayansapps)](https://snapcraft.io/publisher/ayansapps "View all snaps from Ayan's Apps (ayansapps)") * [Ayan's Apps (ayansapps)](https://snapcraft.io/publisher/ayansapps "View all snaps from Ayan's Apps (ayansapps)") * [Productivity](https://snapcraft.io/search?categories=productivity) [Install](https://snapcraft.io/install/readweft/rhel#install) #### A free desktop PDF and e-book super app The free, private PDF super app — editor, reader and AI assistant in one. ReadWeft combines a fast PDF reader, a full PDF editor, an ebook and comic reader, and an on-device AI assistant — completely free. No subscription, no account, no watermarks on your work, no upload to the cloud. Everything runs offline on your PC. EDIT PDF PAGES LIKE A PRO * Reorder pages with drag and drop, delete with undo, duplicate and rotate * Merge PDF files and split PDFs — even drag pages from one PDF into another * Extract pages to a new document in one click ANNOTATE, FILL & SIGN * Highlight, freehand ink, shapes, sticky notes and text boxes * Draw your signature once, save it, and sign any document in seconds * Add text and images anywhere on the page CONVERT, COMPRESS & PROTECT * Compress PDF files losslessly — batch-compress whole folders * Export pages as images or plain text * Encrypt PDFs with AES-256 passwords and permissions, add watermarksOCR SCANNED DOCUMENTS * Turn scans into searchable PDFs with built-in Tesseract OCR * Extract text from scanned pages and photos, with automatic scan enhancementREAD EBOOKS & COMICS * Beautiful EPUB and FB2 reader with a realistic page-curl book mode * CBZ comic book reader and image viewer (PNG, JPG, WEBP, GIF, BMP) * Library with collections, favorites, notes, reading progress and covers AI THAT RESPECTS YOUR PRIVACY * Summarize documents, extract action items and ask questions — processed entirely on your device * Semantic search: find pages by meaning, not just keywords * Optional: connect a free local Ollama model for full AI chat with your PDFs * Power users: ReadWeft is an MCP server, so Claude Desktop, VS Code or Cursor can drive its PDF tools FREE & PRIVATE BY DESIGN * No ads, no tracking, no telemetry, no account, no internet required Stop juggling a PDF reader, a converter website and a paid editor. ReadWeft does it all — free, offline and private. ### Package name * readweft --- ### License * Proprietary --- ### Last updated * 25 August 2026 - latest/stable --- ### Websites * [www.notion.so](https://www.notion.so/ReadWeft-Privacy-Policy-37d7890b332b80e4baf6f7a96cbbd288 "https://www.notion.so/ReadWeft-Privacy-Policy-37d7890b332b80e4baf6f7a96cbbd288") --- ##### Report a Snap Store violation * [Report this Snap](https://snapcraft.io/install/readweft/rhel#report-snap-modal) --- ## Enable snaps on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and install ReadWeft — PDF, EPUB & Comic 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 is available for [Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8](https://www.redhat.com/en/enterprise-linux-8) and RHEL 7, from the 7.6 release onward. The packages for RHEL 7, RHEL 8, and RHEL 9 are in each distribution’s respective [Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux](https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL) (EPEL) repository. The instructions for adding this repository diverge slightly between RHEL 7, RHEL 8 and RHEL 9, which is why they’re listed separately below. The EPEL repository can be added to **RHEL 9** with the following command: ``` sudo dnf install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-9.noarch.rpm sudo dnf upgrade ``` The EPEL repository can be added to **RHEL 8** with the following command: ``` sudo dnf install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm sudo dnf upgrade ``` The EPEL repository can be added to **RHEL 7** with the following command: ``` sudo rpm -ivh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm ``` Adding the *optional* and *extras* repositories is also recommended: ``` sudo subscription-manager repos --enable "rhel-*-optional-rpms" --enable "rhel-*-extras-rpms" sudo yum update ``` Snap can now be installed as follows: ``` sudo yum install snapd ``` Once installed, the *systemd* unit that manages the main snap communication socket needs to be enabled: ``` sudo systemctl enable --now snapd.socket ``` To enable *classic* snap support, enter the following to create a symbolic link between `/var/lib/snapd/snap` and `/snap`: ``` sudo ln -s /var/lib/snapd/snap /snap ``` Either log out and back in again or restart your system to ensure snap’s paths are updated correctly. ### Install ReadWeft — PDF, EPUB & Comic To install ReadWeft — PDF, EPUB & Comic, simply use the following command: ``` sudo snap install readweft ``` ### Other popular snaps… [See more...](https://snapcraft.io/search?categories=featured) [See more in Featured](https://snapcraft.io/search?categories=featured) ### More things to do… #### [Get the snap store](https://snapcraft.io/snap-store) Browse and find snaps from the convenience of your desktop using the snap store snap. #### [Learn more about snaps](https://snapcraft.io/docs) Interested to find out more about snaps? 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