xland/ScreenCapture
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A feature-rich screen capture software with just a single executable file
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ScreenCapture A powerful and lightweight Windows screenshot tool.
Features
- Screenshot, drawing annotations, scrolling screenshot (long screenshot), screen recording (GIF/MP4), text recognition (OCR), QR code recognition.
- Color picker, supports shortcut keys to copy RGB color (
Ctrl+R), HEX color (Ctrl+H) and CMYK color (Ctrl+K). - Draw ellipses, perfect circles (hold
Shift), rectangles, squares (holdShift), arrows, numbered labels, etc. - Draw curves, straight lines (hold
Shift), mosaic, eraser, text. - Modify or delete drawn elements at any time (hover the mouse over an element).
- Undo (
Ctrl+Z), redo (Ctrl+Y), save to file (Ctrl+S), save to clipboard (Ctrl+Cor double-click). - Fast performance with low memory usage.
- Small size, a single executable file, no installation required, does not depend on any dynamic link libraries (except for text recognition).
- Supports a variety of command-line arguments for launching a specified function directly.
- Supports one-time execution mode (the process will not remain resident in the system).
- Multi-language support.
Download
Release (1MB)
Supported Operating Systems
- Windows 10 1607 or Later
Compilation
- The main branch depends on the Ling GUI framework.
- The project can be compiled with Visual Studio 2026 (installed with the C++ Desktop Development Kit).
- 2.4.25 (based on D2D) and 2.3.3 (based on Qt) are the previous stable branches.
Command Line
// Terminate the process immediately after the capture is finished.
> ScreenCapture.exe --auto-quit=true
// Skip the toolbar once the region is selected and go straight into the specified feature:
// long = scrolling capture (long screenshot)
> ScreenCapture.exe --enter=long
// video = screen recording
> ScreenCapture.exe --enter=video
// ocr = text recognition
> ScreenCapture.exe --enter=ocr
// qr = QR code recognition
> ScreenCapture.exe --enter=qr
// The two arguments can be combined, for example: no tray icon, and the process quits right after the long screenshot is taken.
> ScreenCapture.exe --enter=long --auto-quit=true
Text Recognition (OCR) Plugin
Download the latest version of the text recognition tool ImageReader.exe (about 25MB), place this file in the same directory as ScreenCapture.exe, or in the %appdata%\ScreenCapture\plugin directory, then restart the application to use it.
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