Open Source Windows Screen Capture Software
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View 65 business solutionsBrowse free open source Screen Capture software and projects for Windows below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Screen Capture software by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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GraphicsMagick
Swiss army knife of image processing
GraphicsMagick provides a set of commandline tools and programming APIs for manipulating, editing, and converting raster and vector images. It is derived from ImageMagick, with the objective of providing better stability and performance than ImageMagick while retaining the original MIT/X11 license. -
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Capture2Text
Quickly OCR part of the screen and save resulting text to clipboard
Capture2Text enables users to quickly OCR a portion of the screen using a keyboard shortcut. The resulting text will be saved to the clipboard by default. Supports 90+ languages including Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and Spanish. Portable and does not require installation. See http://capture2text.sourceforge.net for details. -
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Greenshot
An open source screenshot tool
Greenshot is an open-source screenshot software tool for Windows that quickly creates screenshots of a selected region, window, or full screen. Greenshot can easily annotates, highlight, or obfuscate a screenshot -
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Deskreen
Deskreen turns any device with a web browser into a secondary screen
Use any device with a web browser as a second screen for your computer (with the help of Virtual Display Adapter). Share your computer entire screen to any device that has a web browser. Limit Deskreen to share only a single application view to any device with a web browser. If you are a video blogger and you need a teleprompter, or you need to look at the camera during a video conference, Flip Screen Mode is just for you. Deskreen can share screen video over WiFi. No cables are needed. Connect as many devices as you want at the same time. Share the computer screens to all of them. You can change picture quality while sharing a screen. Auto quality change supported. Three easy steps to connect with Deskreen. User friendly design with features that you need. Deskreen was built with security in mind. It uses an industry standard of End-to-end encryption. -
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CamStudio - Screen Recorder
Free screen recording software
CamStudio records screen and audio activity on your computer to create AVI video files and turns them into bandwidth-friendly, streaming Flash videos (SWF). CamStudio also lets you add screen captions or video annotations to your recordings through anti-aliased images, or by producing a Webcam movie of yourself (screen in screen) on your desktop. And CamStudio comes with its own lossless codec that produces crystal clear results with a much smaller filesize compared some popular codecs, like Microsoft Video 1. Additional options include cursor controls, the ability to record an entire screen or a portion of it, and selections for output quality. Best of all, CamStudio is easy to use and navigate, plus it includes a built-in Help file. Official release builds: http://p.sf.net/camstudio/stable Source Tree: http://p.sf.net/camstudio/mercurial Patches sent to the dev mailing list. Consider joining the CamStudio project by emailing one of the admins. -
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ShareX
Screen capture, file sharing and productivity tool
ShareX is a lightweight free and open source program that allows you to capture or record any area of your screen and share it with a single press of a key. ShareX offers numerous methods of capture including full screen, monitor, freehand and so much more. It also features plenty of customizable after-capture tasks and supports more than 80 different image, text, and file hosting services, as well as many URL shortening and sharing services. -
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Auto Screen Capture
Automated screen capture utility
A portable and command line friendly application that takes screenshots while you work and play. This software is free and open source but if you find it useful then a small donation is appreciated! https://paypal.me/codewalker777 -
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Flameshot
Powerful yet simple to use screenshot software 🖥️ 📸
Flameshot is a powerful yet simple-to-use open-source screenshot software designed for efficiency and flexibility. It is a free and open-source, cross-platform tool that helps users capture screenshots with ease. Licensed under GPL v3, Flameshot provides a wide range of built-in features that save time during screen capturing and editing. The software offers a clean, straightforward interface that makes taking and annotating screenshots quick and intuitive. Users can customize the application extensively to match their workflow and preferences. With support for cloud uploads and command-line operations, Flameshot adapts easily to both casual and advanced users. -
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ScreenToGif
Screen, webcam and sketchboard recorder with an integrated editor
ScreenToGif is a tool that allows you to record a selected area of your screen, live feed from your webcam or live drawings from a sketchboard and edit and save the recording as a gif, apng, video, psd or png images. It comes with a powerful editor, yet remains a portable and small-sized application. -
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Screenity
The most powerful screen recorder & annotation tool for Chrome
Screenity is a feature-packed screen and camera recorder for Chrome. Annotate your screen to give feedback, emphasize your clicks, edit your recording, and much more. Make unlimited recordings of your tab, desktop, any application, and camera. Annotate by drawing anywhere on the screen, adding text, and creating arrows. Highlight your clicks, focus on your mouse, or hide it from the recording. Individual microphone and computer audio controls, push to talk, and more. Custom countdowns, show controls only on hover, and many other customization options. Export as mp4, gif, and webm, or save the video directly to Google Drive. Make sure the language you want to translate Screenity into is supported by the Chrome Store. Before submitting the pull request, it would be helpful if you tried running the extension in the new language, to make sure everything looks right. -
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Thumbnail me is a free and open source thumbnails generator built on movie thumbnailer. Thumbnail me is coded in C++ and uses the Qt 4.8.0 library. This software is actually available on Windows Xp / 2k3 / 2k8 / Vista / 7 x86/x64 and Linux x86/x64. Source Code : 3.5 (Never released) : https://github.com/kwent/thumbnailme 3.0 (Current version) : http://sourceforge.net/projects/thumbnailme/files/Sources/thumbnailme_3.0_Windows_Sources.zip/download Source Documentation : http://www.thumbnailme.com/doc
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ksnip
Qt based cross-platform screenshot tool with annotations
Ksnip is a Qt based cross-platform screenshot tool that provides many annotation features for your screenshots. -
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Kooha
Elegantly record your screen
Capture your screen in an intuitive and straightforward way without distractions. Kooha is a simple screen recorder with a minimal interface. You can simply click the record button without having to configure a bunch of settings. -
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html2canvas
A JavaScript HTML screenshot renderer
html2canvas is a JavaScript HTML renderer. The script provides you with the tools to take screenshots of webpages directly on the browser. The screenshot is based on the DOM and therefore, it may not be 100% accurate to the real representation, given that it is not an actual screenshot, but a type of screenshot built based on the available data and information of the page. The script renders such page as a canvas image, by reading the DOM and the different styles of the featured elements. It doesn't require rendering from the server, given that the image is created on the user's browser. However, as it is heavily dependent on the browser, the library is not to be used in nodejs. It can't circumvent any browser content policy restrictions and to render cross-origin content a proxy will be needed to get the content to the same origin. -
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A video thumbnail generator based on FFMPEG.
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AutoScreenCap
Automatic Screen Capture Tool - making screenshots in background
Automatic Screen Capture Tool - useful utility to make screen shots periodically. Fully customizable, lightweight, easy to use tool. Making screenshots in various formats -
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Spatie Browsershot
Convert HTML to an image, PDF or string
Browsershot is a PHP package that allows developers to convert web pages into images or PDFs. It utilizes headless Chrome to render pages accurately and can be used to capture screenshots, generate PDFs, and manipulate web content programmatically. It is especially useful for applications that require generating visual content from dynamic or static web pages. -
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gowitness
Golang, web screenshot utility using Chrome Headless
A golang, web screenshot utility using Chrome Headless. gowitness is a website screenshot utility written in Golang, that uses Chrome Headless to generate screenshots of web interfaces using the command line, with a handy report viewer to process results. Both Linux and macOS is supported, with Windows support mostly working. Inspiration for gowitness comes from Eyewitness. If you are looking for something with lots of extra features, be sure to check it out along with these other projects. For installation information and other documentation, please refer to the wiki. The primary of purpose that gowitness serves is to take screenshots of websites and do that well. As such, gowitness has many ways to be told how to take a screenshot. By default, gowitness will store screenshots in a screenshots/ directory in the path where gowitness is being run from. It will also store all of the preflight information (initial HTTP response which includes headers & TLS information). -
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ksnip
ksnip the cross-platform screenshot and annotation tool
Ksnip is a Qt-based cross-platform screenshot tool that provides many annotation features for your screenshots. Obfuscate image regions with blur and pixelated. Add effects to the image (Drop Shadow, Grayscale, inverted color or Border). Add watermarks to captured images. Global hotkeys for capturing screenshots (currently only for Windows and X11). Tabs for screenshots and images. Open existing images via dialog, drag-and-drop or paste from the clipboard. Run as a single instance application (secondary instances send cli parameter to primary instance). Pin screenshots in frameless windows that stay atop other windows. User-defined actions for taking screenshots and post-processing. OCR support through plugins (Windows and Linux/Unix). Many configuration options. -
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Pageres CLI
Capture website screenshots
Capture screenshots of websites in various resolutions. A good way to make sure your websites are responsive. It's speedy and generates 100 screenshots from 10 different websites in just over a minute. It can also be used to render SVG images. -
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easycap-app
Capture your screen with unprecedented ease and quality.
Welcome to EasyCap, your ultimate desktop screen recorder and screenshot editor. Designed with simplicity and power in mind, EasyCap is perfect for professionals, creators, and anyone looking to capture their PC activities with ease. Whether you're creating tutorials, recording gameplay, or capturing important moments, EasyCap makes it effortless. -
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Colora - Color Picker
Color converter, screen color picker and color palettes for Windows
Colora is a useful small color converter and screen color picker tool for Windows. Colora makes it easy to pick colors from screen and save them. The color picker is tested to work with Windows 10 and DPI scaling. Picked colors can be configured and converted between various formats such as RGB, Hex, HSB, HSL and CMYK. The integrated palette tool then allows you to create color palettes from selected colors or the history of picked colors. Support: https://sourceforge.net/p/colora/discussion/ https://github.com/bluegrams/colora/issues -
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Fraps
Fraps is a computer utility for calculating the number of FPS
Fraps is a versatile Windows application designed for gamers and content creators working with DirectX or OpenGL games. It functions primarily as benchmarking software, displaying real-time frames per second (FPS) in a corner of your screen and allowing you to measure performance between specific points. The app saves these benchmarking statistics to disk, making it useful for reviews and performance analysis. Fraps also serves as a screen capture tool, enabling instant screenshots that are automatically named and timestamped without needing to paste them elsewhere. Additionally, it offers real-time video capture capabilities, letting users record gameplay at resolutions up to 7680x4800 and frame rates between 1 and 120 FPS. The captured videos maintain outstanding quality and support synchronized audio recording. Fraps has been a favorite among gamers wanting to record high-quality gameplay videos and join the Machinima community. -
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Taksi is a video capture/screen capture tool for recording 3D graphics applications (such as games). It can capture almost any windows application using DirectX, OpenGL, or GDI and create an AVI file using any installed VFW codec or still frames in PNG.
