--- title: Install Tabula on Arch Linux using the Snap Store | Snapcraft description: Get the latest version of Tabula for on Arch Linux - Tabula helps you liberate data tables trapped inside PDF files. url: https://snapcraft.io/install/tabula/arch --- [Canonical Snapcraft](https://snapcraft.io/) # Install Tabula on **Arch Linux** # Tabula [Björn Seipel (digidigital-software)](https://snapcraft.io/publisher/digidigital-software "View all snaps from Björn Seipel (digidigital-software)") * [Björn Seipel (digidigital-software)](https://snapcraft.io/publisher/digidigital-software "View all snaps from Björn Seipel (digidigital-software)") * [Productivity](https://snapcraft.io/search?categories=productivity) * [Utilities](https://snapcraft.io/search?categories=utilities) [Install](https://snapcraft.io/install/tabula/arch#install) #### Tabula helps you liberate data tables trapped inside PDF files. If you’ve ever tried to do anything with data provided to you in PDFs, you know how painful this is — you can’t easily copy-and-paste rows of data out of PDF files. **Tabula allows you to extract that data in CSV format, through a simple web interface.** **Caveat:** Tabula only works on text-based PDFs, not scanned (purely image based) documents. If you can click-and-drag to select text in your table in a PDF viewer (even if the output is disorganized trash), then your PDF is text-based and Tabula should work. **Security Concerns?:** Tabula is designed with security in mind. **Your PDF and the extracted data never touch the net** -- when you use Tabula on your local machine, as long as your browser's URL bar says "localhost" or "127.0.0.1", **all processing takes place on your local machine. Even external version checks and the anonymous stats counter have been disabled in the snap.** If you start the program by clicking on it's icon this snap starts a local web server and then automatically opens a browser window. Close the terminal window to stop the server. To learn how to use Tabula in the best way, I recommend Alastair Otter's tutorials on YouTube: **In addition to the Tabula server this snap brings you "Tabula-Java"** - the command line version of Tabula. Type `tabula --help` in your terminal to learn about the available parameters. It is a **community snap** without support by Tabula's authors. ### Package name * tabula --- ### License * MIT --- ### Last updated * 18 January 2026 - latest/stable * 17 January 2026 - latest/edge --- ### Websites * [tabula.technology](https://tabula.technology/ "https://tabula.technology/") --- ### Contact * [support@digidigital.de](mailto:support@digidigital.de "mailto:support@digidigital.de") --- ##### Report a Snap Store violation * [Report this Snap](https://snapcraft.io/install/tabula/arch#report-snap-modal) --- ## Enable snaps on Arch Linux and install Tabula 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 Arch Linux, snap can be installed from the [Arch User Repository (AUR).](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/snapd/) The [manual build process](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_User_Repository#Installing_packages) is the Arch-supported install method for AUR packages, and you’ll need the [prerequisites](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_User_Repository#Prerequisites) installed before you can install any AUR package. You can then install snap with the following: ``` git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/snapd.git cd snapd makepkg -si ``` Once installed, the *systemd* unit that manages the main snap communication socket needs to be enabled: ``` sudo systemctl enable --now snapd.socket ``` If [AppArmor](https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AppArmor) is enabled in your system, enable the service which loads AppArmor profiles for snaps: ``` sudo systemctl enable --now snapd.apparmor.service ``` 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 Tabula To install Tabula, simply use the following command: ``` sudo snap install tabula ``` ### 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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