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Paperwork

Version: 1.3.0 Web: https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/OpenPaperwork/paperwork

The amount of paper people use for bills, official documents, mailing, marketing materials and advertising is huge. Even though eco-friendly initiatives like ‘print less’ (LXF is a paperless office! Management won’t pay for paper… – Ed) or ‘use double-sided printing’ are welcome, the situation is still pretty bad. Why not help save the planet by using the power of open source? Let Paperwork help. This user-friendly GTK3-based personal document manager helps collect and sort any type of printed material. Paperwork will be a best friend to your Linux-connected flatbed document scanner. This application combines features of a SANE-compatible scanner GUI with a Shotwell-like image library manager – but it differs from both.

The purpose of Paperwork is to help you scan your papers and forget about them. Scanned documents get automatically OCRed via Tesseract (make sure you install your language pack if it’s not English) and stored as PDF files in ~/papers by default. Paperwork combines bitmap images with recognised text in such a way that you see the original raster document, which in fact contains editable text – you only see it when you search a PDF or manually select something. OCR turns a bitmap into a searchable document.

Once your library grows, this feature becomes extremely worthwhile, as it lets you quickly find any document by any text sequence. You don’t need to manually tag files or add keywords, although you can do so. Paperwork supports labels for better and cleaner document management. Select a document from the left panel and press the ‘dog hook’ button to edit its properties. Here you can change date, add and edit labels and also manage keywords.

A scanner is not a requirement for . If you don’t have one, just choose to import documents from files. The application is present on Flathub, but the Flatpak version has difficulties accessing scanners – it wants you to share your device on the LAN by adding 127.0.0.1 to your file, which is a weird hack.