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Re: Flameshot – Open-source screenshot software

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Post by vaillant »

bnj wrote: post #40

Is there any feature rich open source option for MacOS? I use and enjoy free shot on windows but I’ve struggled to find good options for the mac

MacOS has pretty strong screenshot capabilities out of the box; honestly, makes me want the same for Windows.

Re: Flameshot – Open-source screenshot software

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Post by SubiculumCode »

wackget wrote: post #16

Having briefly tried it I have to say it's not as clear or easy to use as ShareX (another open-source screenshot tool). The monochrome icons are really not intuitive or easy to discern at a glance. Another commenter asks why it's not possible to trigger with the PrtScn key and I would also think that is an essential feature.

Flameshot is the best. I'm never going back.

And configuring it to a the print screen button just involves assigning it, and in the case of Ubuntu, overriding system defaults.

Re: Flameshot – Open-source screenshot software

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Post by sandinmyjoints »

geoka9 wrote: post #30

I use the following script (activated by a system-level shortcut key) to take a screenshot, upload to S3 bucket (using the minio client[0]) and place the URL in the X selection buffer, ready to be pasted: #!/bin/bash set -e dbus-update-activation-environment DISPLAY XAUTHORITY FNAME=`cat /dev/urandom | tr -cd 'a-f0-9' | head -c 32`.png flameshot gui --raw > /tmp/$FNAME ~/go/bin/mc -q cp --attr x-amz-acl=public-read /…

I forget, do you pay for bandwidth serving from S3 in this case? I have been looking for a good screenshot hosting solution to replace Cloudup, which was perfect and still usually works but I figure it might stop any day now. My only worry would be the unlikely case of a surprise high bill from a screenshot gone viral or something along those lines.

Re: Flameshot – Open-source screenshot software

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Post by hu3 »

jerbear4328 wrote: post #39
hu3 wrote: post #19

Can this do OCR? I couldn't find in feature list so I'm guessing not yet. I use Windows native screenshot tool because it supports OCR.

Is that on Windows 11? The Windows 10 tool doesn't, though there is a PowerToys feature to select an area and copy text (not accurate enough to be useful though).

Windows 11. Pro version but it shoudn't make a difference.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2070861/windows-snipping-too...

I press Win+Shift+S then select the region of the text.

Re: Flameshot – Open-source screenshot software

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Post by djbusby »

sandinmyjoints wrote: post #46
geoka9 wrote: post #30

I use the following script (activated by a system-level shortcut key) to take a screenshot, upload to S3 bucket (using the minio client[0]) and place the URL in the X selection buffer, ready to be pasted: #!/bin/bash set -e dbus-update-activation-environment DISPLAY XAUTHORITY FNAME=`cat /dev/urandom | tr -cd 'a-f0-9' | head -c 32`.png flameshot gui --raw > /tmp/$FNAME ~/go/bin/mc -q cp --attr x-amz-acl=public-read /…

I forget, do you pay for bandwidth serving from S3 in this case? I have been looking for a good screenshot hosting solution to replace Cloudup, which was perfect and still usually works but I figure it might stop any day now. My only worry would be the unlikely case of a surprise high bill from a screenshot gone viral or something along those lines.

Doesn't R2 have no egress fee?

Re: Flameshot – Open-source screenshot software

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Post by boomboomsubban »

hu3 wrote: post #19

Can this do OCR? I couldn't find in feature list so I'm guessing not yet. I use Windows native screenshot tool because it supports OCR.

Piping a screenshot to tesseract seems easy, a quick search shows a plugin available to do so and no shortage of scripts.
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