Screenshot software for cats
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This project is a screenshot utility for Windows. I was unsatisfied with the other options available, most of them lacking the ability to have the screenshot quickly persist onscreen. With the Clips feature, this is super easy.
TWCF has a large featureset.
It's primary purpose is taking screenshots but it can also act as a color picker, read and create QRCodes/Barcodes, perform OCR, act as a file manager, check file hashes, and do regex.
One of the most popular features is Clips.
A clip is a screenshot which remains on screen and can be dragged around, resized, rotated and copied.
The default hotkey to make a new clip is Alt + Z.
Clip Showcase:
TWCF has a powerful built-in color picker.
The color picker supports conversions between 4 different color spaces, can visualize 3 of them, has hex and decimal input and output and can pick colors directly from your screen.
Color Picker Preview:
You can set custom hotkeys for the following functionality:
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| None | do nothing |
| Region Capture | select an area to screenshot |
| New Clip From Region Capture | createa a clip from a selected area |
| New Clip From File | createa a clip from a selected file |
| New Clip From Clipboard | createa a clip from an image in your clipboard |
| Screen Color Picker | choose a color on your screen to copy it |
| Capture Last Region | capture last selected region |
| Capture Fullscreen | capture all monitors |
| Capture Active Monitor | capture the monitor with your mouse on it |
| Capture Active Window | capture the active window |
| Capture Window | do nothing |
| Capture gif | do nothing |
| New OCR Capture | do nothing |
| Color Wheel Picker | opens a new color picker window |
| Hash Check | opens a new hash check window |
| Regex | opens a new regex window |
| QRCode | opens a new QRCode window |
| Open Main Form | opens the main window |
Hotkey Window Preview:
The main window acts a file explorer with a builtin image viewing window. You can set some different interpolation modes and drag modes allowing you to zoom and move the image around. There is also a fullscreen button.
By default the file explorer is pointed to your set screenshots folder, so if you ever need to quicly see something you just took a screenshot of, it's right there waiting.
| Format | Reading | Writing | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| JPEG | yes | yes | none |
| PNG | yes | yes | none |
| BMP | yes | yes | none |
| TIFF | yes | yes | none |
| GIF | yes | yes | no feature for writing animated gifs |
| WEBP | yes | yes | requires libwebp plugin, no animation support |
| WRM | yes | yes | this is a custom image format which only this application supports |
You can run OCR on images using OCR.Space's online API.
This OCR service works relatively well and has a bunch of supported languages.
OCR Window Preview:
