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Paperwork

Personal document manager.

  • Completely free
  • Linux
  • Open source

Overview

Features described in its Flathub listing: text recognition (OCR).

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “This is where the magic happens: Paperwork uses automatically optical character recognition (OCR) to convert your papers into searchable documents.” — Flathub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

Paperwork is completely free: it is open source software, and every feature is available without paying or subscribing.

Its licence (GPL-3.0+) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • Commercial use allowed

About

Sorting documents is a machine's job. Paperwork is an easy-to-use application which allows you to find in all your documents when you need them. Type a few keywords in the search bar and the list of papers will shrink to only the relevant content. This is where the magic happens: Paperwork uses automatically optical character recognition (OCR) to convert your papers into searchable documents. Main features are: Scanner support PDF support Automatic detection of page orientation OCR Document labels Automatic guessing of the labels to apply on new documents Search Keyword suggestions Quick edit of scans

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Facts collected from Official plan pages (pricing, licence, terms) (commercial use) —
  • Last technical check: 6 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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