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title: Install OpenPaperwork on Linux | Snap Store
description: Get the latest version of OpenPaperwork for Linux - Personal document
  manager
url: https://snapcraft.io/openpaperwork-snap
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# OpenPaperwork (openpaperwork-snap)

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latest/stable 2.2.5-4

Install latest/stable of OpenPaperwork

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**Install using the command line**

```
sudo snap install openpaperwork-snap
```

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

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### Package name

* openpaperwork-snap

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### License

* GPL-3.0-or-later

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### Last updated

* 7 August 2026 - latest/stable
* 19 December 2025 - latest/edge

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### Websites

* [github.com/Tibsun75/openpaperwork-snap](https://github.com/Tibsun75/openpaperwork-snap "https://github.com/Tibsun75/openpaperwork-snap")
* [gitlab.gnome.org](https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/OpenPaperwork/paperwork.git "https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/OpenPaperwork/paperwork.git")

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### Contact

* [github.com/Tibsun75](https://github.com/Tibsun75 "https://github.com/Tibsun75")

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### Source code

* [github.com/Tibsun75/openpaperwork-snap/blob/main/snapcraft.yaml](https://github.com/Tibsun75/openpaperwork-snap/blob/main/snapcraft.yaml "https://github.com/Tibsun75/openpaperwork-snap/blob/main/snapcraft.yaml")

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### Report a bug

* [github.com/Tibsun75/openpaperwork-snap/issues](https://github.com/Tibsun75/openpaperwork-snap/issues "https://github.com/Tibsun75/openpaperwork-snap/issues")

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##### Report a Snap Store violation

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

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

#### Personal document manager

Unofficial Snap of **OpenPaperwork**, a personal document manager for Linux.
Scan, organize, and search documents with OCR. This Snap includes the full
Tesseract OCR (`tesseract-ocr-all`) for all languages.
Start tagging your documents and openpaperworks will automatically
apply add smart tags to future documents, this makes organization almost magical.

Start CLI with: `openpaperwork-snap.paperwork-cli`
or: `openpaperwork-snap.paperwork-json`

This Snap includes a small YAD script for convenient mass export of
searchable PDFs from OpenPaperwork: `openpaperwork-snap.export-pdf`

**Make sure to enable the necessary permissions** for this Snap.
Open Terminal and connect all plugs :
`snap connections openpaperwork-snap | awk '$3 == "-" {print $2}' | while read plug; do sudo snap connect $plug; done`

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## Install OpenPaperwork 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/openpaperwork-snap/arch)

[### CentOS](https://snapcraft.io/install/openpaperwork-snap/centos)

[### Debian](https://snapcraft.io/install/openpaperwork-snap/debian)

[### elementary OS](https://snapcraft.io/install/openpaperwork-snap/elementary)

[### Fedora](https://snapcraft.io/install/openpaperwork-snap/fedora)

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

[### Kubuntu](https://snapcraft.io/install/openpaperwork-snap/kubuntu)

[### Manjaro](https://snapcraft.io/install/openpaperwork-snap/manjaro)

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

[### openSUSE](https://snapcraft.io/install/openpaperwork-snap/opensuse)

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

[### Ubuntu](https://snapcraft.io/install/openpaperwork-snap/ubuntu)