The paper wallet should contain a private key.
If the private key is bip38 encrypted, you might need to decrypt it by downloading the sourcecode from https://www.bitaddress.org and going to "wallet details"
Once you have an unencrypted private key, go to electrum, go to wallet => private keys => sweep, enter your private key, and sweep your paper wallet.
It is actually much safer to decrypt the wallet offline, instead of doing it on a website, to do this OP, download this file from here: GitHub Repository (zip), verify the download authenticity and then continue with the steps mentioned above to decrypt the key and sweep it into Electrum.If the private key is bip38 encrypted, you might need to decrypt it by downloading the sourcecode from https://www.bitaddress.org and going to "wallet details"
Once you have an unencrypted private key, go to electrum, go to wallet => private keys => sweep, enter your private key, and sweep your paper wallet.
TBH: it's possible electrum can even decrypt the private key for you... you might want to try this first before using bitaddress.org, i just never tried, and i don't want to sweep my paper wallets just to try it out.
Nope, Electrum won't decrypt the private key, one has to decrypt it first before sweeping it into Electrum.Had a party last night, had a bit much to drink when i made this post... Can't believe i skipped the "best to run the code from an offline pc"-part
Thanks for adding this
Btw: a little addendum, you could use unetbootin (just google this) to create a live linux usb to boot from (for safety). Also, once you've swept your paper wallet, consider it compromised and never use it again to store funds on
