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Today we present to you a very particular, very useful and a little too unknown tool. His name is ShareX and it is an incredible and complete suite for take screenshots And video of your screen.
The project ShareX it is a free project and Open source 1. There are many reasons why we love this application, starting from its ease of use.
In the meantime, however, we warn you of one thing right away: it is a program that exists only for Windows, therefore friends with Linux or macOS We're sorry but this time we're not addressing you.
ShareX beats the Windows 10 Snipping Tool by 0
The snipping tool Windows, the one installed by default in the system, despite having recently been updated and called Capture and annotate it remains a very convenient but really excessively sparse tool. For example, it only allows you to capture screenshots and does not allow you to capture videos.
ShareX allows quick capture of any open window on your screen. You can also capture text and perform immediate OCR. That is, text recognition by transcription. Very useful for example if you want to translate an image with text and you don't feel like transcribing it by hand.
But the strong point of ShareX in our opinion it is precisely the video acquisition. In fact, with just a few clicks you can record what happens on your screen, even just part of it such as a program window. You can have it recorded in mp4 or even directly in GIF format.
Once you have taken the screenshot, video or image, you can also have it automatically uploaded to imgur.com or the text above pastebin.com. A truly interesting setup that also saves a lot of time.
As we were saying, therefore, an application that is perhaps a little too unknown but which works really well.
As always we suggest that if you use the application consistently and like it, you make one donation to the project.
This and other interesting applications in the sub-category Advanced Tools of our section Software FOSS!
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