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title: Install Tabula on Debian using the Snap Store | Snapcraft
description: Get the latest version of Tabula for on Debian - Tabula helps you liberate
  data tables trapped inside PDF files.
url: https://snapcraft.io/install/tabula/debian
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# Install Tabula on **Debian**

# Tabula

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[Install](https://snapcraft.io/install/tabula/debian#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: <https://youtu.be/IEusn9HB1sc>

**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

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### License

* MIT

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### Last updated

* 18 January 2026 - latest/stable
* 17 January 2026 - latest/edge

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### Websites

* [tabula.technology](https://tabula.technology/ "https://tabula.technology/")

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### Contact

* [support@digidigital.de](mailto:support@digidigital.de "mailto:support@digidigital.de")

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## Enable snaps on Debian 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 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 Tabula

To install Tabula, simply use the following command:

```
sudo snap install tabula
```

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