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title: Install Kingfisher on Linux | Snap Store
description: Get the latest version of Kingfisher for Linux - Copy text from anything
  on your screen
url: https://snapcraft.io/kingfisher
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# Kingfisher

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latest/stable 1.0.5

Install latest/stable of Kingfisher

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**Install using the command line**

```
sudo snap install kingfisher
```

Don't have snapd? [Get set up for snaps](https://snapcraft.io/docs/installing-snapd).

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### Package name

* kingfisher

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### License

* GPL-3.0-or-later

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### Last updated

* Today - latest/stable
* Today - latest/candidate

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### Report a bug

* [github.com/geojoseph19/kingfisher/issues](https://github.com/geojoseph19/kingfisher/issues "https://github.com/geojoseph19/kingfisher/issues")

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##### Report a Snap Store violation

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

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* [Description](https://snapcraft.io/kingfisher#tab-description)
* [Security](https://snapcraft.io/kingfisher#tab-security)

#### Copy text from anything on your screen

Kingfisher reads the text in anything you can see: a video, a photo, a scanned PDF, an error message. Select an area of the screen and the text is on your clipboard, ready to paste.

The text is read on your computer, without an internet connection, so private documents never leave it. Kingfisher is free and open source.

* Precise area selection on any monitor
* Read the whole screen, image files and images on the clipboard
* QR codes and barcodes
* Open links, email addresses and phone numbers with one click
* Keep the original layout or join wrapped lines into paragraphs
* History of your last 20 results, saved as text only
* Top-bar icon, and a keyboard shortcut you can add in Settings
* English and 20 other languages included, among them Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Japanese, Russian and Spanish
* Light and dark styles

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## Install Kingfisher on your Linux distribution

Choose your Linux distribution to get detailed installation instructions. If yours is not shown, get more details on the [installing snapd documentation](https://snapcraft.io/docs/installing-snapd).

[### Arch Linux](https://snapcraft.io/install/kingfisher/arch)

[### CentOS](https://snapcraft.io/install/kingfisher/centos)

[### Debian](https://snapcraft.io/install/kingfisher/debian)

[### elementary OS](https://snapcraft.io/install/kingfisher/elementary)

[### Fedora](https://snapcraft.io/install/kingfisher/fedora)

[### KDE Neon](https://snapcraft.io/install/kingfisher/kde-neon)

[### Kubuntu](https://snapcraft.io/install/kingfisher/kubuntu)

[### Manjaro](https://snapcraft.io/install/kingfisher/manjaro)

[### Pop!\_OS](https://snapcraft.io/install/kingfisher/pop)

[### openSUSE](https://snapcraft.io/install/kingfisher/opensuse)

[### Red Hat Enterprise Linux](https://snapcraft.io/install/kingfisher/rhel)

[### Ubuntu](https://snapcraft.io/install/kingfisher/ubuntu)