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Simple Sifter Setup Guide

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Last updated: August 26, 2026

Building a Simple Sifter takes a Raspberry Pi 4 or 5 (the 5 gives the best performance), a USB-C power supply, an SD card, and a Fujitsu or Ricoh document scanner. The fi-8170 is the model the Sifter is tuned for. SortSwift does not sell any of the parts and the Sifter image is free.

  1. Download the Sifter image from https://sortswift.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/sifter/sortswift-sifter.img.gz
  2. Download Balena Etcher from https://etcher.balena.io/
  3. In Etcher click Flash from file and pick the image, then Select target and pick your SD card, then Flash. When it moves on to Validating you can hit Skip.
  4. Put the SD card in the Pi and power it on.
  5. From a laptop or phone, join the Wi-Fi network called simplesifter, password sortswift. Open http://10.41.0.1/ and follow the prompts to put the Pi onto your own network.
  6. Plug the scanner straight into the Pi, with no hub in between, into one of the blue USB 3 ports, using a cable that carries data rather than power only. Power both on.
  7. Open https://simplesifter.local:8080. It warns about the certificate because the Pi signs its own, so click Advanced and then Proceed. That warning has to be cleared once or the web app cannot talk to the Pi. Then log in with your SortSwift account.
  8. Open the scanner page in SortSwift and set the left panel toggle to Sifter instead of File Upload.

You can run up to four scanners from one Pi, one on the free plan and up to four on a paid scanning plan. The image updates itself after that, so there is no reconfiguration after a restart, and every setting is saved per scanner.

Do not install PaperStream on the Pi. The Pi drives the scanner through SANE, the Linux driver stack, and the image already has everything it needs. PaperStream is only for the separate route where the scanner is plugged into a Windows laptop.

The full walkthrough with screenshots is in the sidebar under Scanning, Simple Sifter, Sifter Setup Guide.

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