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  1. peek

    Simple animated GIF screen recorder with an easy to use interface

    On Linux for screen recording I use Peek and I really like the approach

    You just resize Peek‘s transparent window over the part of the screen that you want and hit record

    https://github.com/phw/peek

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  3. flameshot

    Powerful yet simple to use screenshot software :desktop_computer: :camera_flash:

  4. greenshot

    Greenshot for Windows - Report bugs & features go here: https://greenshot.atlassian.net or look for information on:

    For the last 10(ish) years I've been using Greenshot [1]. I haven't found any issues with it but it is only available on Windows and Mac.

    [1] https://getgreenshot.org/

  5. scrot

    SCReenshOT - command line screen capture utility

    For screenshots I use 'scrot' and then open the image in gimp if I need to crop or edit further.

    Seems very simple to me and avoids browsers, cloud storage, and other potential pitfalls.

    https://github.com/resurrecting-open-source-projects/scrot

  6. ShareX

    ShareX is a free and open-source application that enables users to capture or record any area of their screen with a single keystroke. It also supports uploading images, text, and various file types to a wide range of destinations.

    I've been using ShareX (https://getsharex.com/) for some years, which is also open-source, and very featureful while not feeling too bloated, though Windows only.

    I'll have to have a look at this next time I'm on a Linux desktop, as I found the options lacking compared to ShareX last time I looked.

  7. flameshot

    Powerful yet simple to use screenshot software :desktop_computer: :camera_flash: (by jason-ni)

    Last year, when I want to find a tool to do the sanpshot and OCR job, I found flameshot. However, the OCR feature hasn't been added as native function due to some issues I'm not very clear.

    So I spent some time added the OCR function into flameshot. I didn't choose to compile tesseract into flameshot, but using the rest api way to call a server running remotely. The reason for this way is I also added llama.cpp translation feature after OCR.

    Here're github repositories for my fork of flameshot and the OCR and translation server which is written causually in Rust.

    https://github.com/jason-ni/flameshot

  8. flameshot-ocr-server

  9. SaaSHub

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