Open Source Capture Software

Visit NAPS2's home page at www.naps2.com. NAPS2 is a document scanning application with a focus on simplicity and ease of use. Scan your documents from WIA- and TWAIN-compatible scanners, organize the pages as you like, and save them as PDF, TIFF, JPEG, PNG, and other file formats. Available on Windows, Mac, and Linux. NAPS2 is currently available in over 40 different languages. Want to see NAPS2 in your preferred language? Help translate! See the wiki for more details.

A GUI to ease the process of producing a multipage PDF from a scan. gscan2pdf should work on almost any Linux/BSD machine.

Provides optical character recognition (OCR) solutions for Vietnamese language.

Ksnip is a Qt based cross-platform screenshot tool that provides many annotation features for your screenshots.

FastPhotoTagger tries to be the fastest way to set the metadata in your photos. Add, change, delete, and search the metadata fields of your choice. FastPhotoTagger excels when you have lots of files and lots of metadata. With FastPhotoTagger, you can - Set multiple images to have the same tags - Set individual images to have unique tags - Display all the metadata in an image - Compare and edit all the metadata in several images - Work with your favorite metadata fields: EXIF, XMP, IPTC, etc. - Define hierarchical keywords - View images and slideshows that display tags as captions - Create and search a metadata database FastPhotoTagger has versions for PC and Android. FastPhotoTagger uses ExifTool to read & write metadata, HyperSQL to manage its database, dcraw to display DNG & RAW, and ImageMagick to display TIFF. WEBP, & HEIC.

NOTE: Project migrated to GitHub in Dec 2020! See https://github.com/Enselic/recordmydesktop recordMyDesktop is a program that captures audio-video data of a linux desktop session, producing an ogg-encapsulated theora-vorbis file. recordMyDesktop tries to be as unobstrusive as possible by proccessing only regions of the screen that have changed

ZoneMinder is video and cctv surveillance and security application. It supports multiple video or IP cameras and a sophisticated motion detection system based around zones. Both live streams and historic events can be viewed via the web interface.

phpSANE is a web-based frontend for SANE written in HTML/PHP so you can scan with your web-browser. It also supports OCR.

HotShots is an application for capturing screens and saving them in a variety of image formats as well as adding annotations and graphical data (arrows, lines, texts, ...).

Greenshot is a lightweight screenshot software tool for Windows that quickly creates screenshots of a selected region, window, or full screen; you can even capture complete (scrolling) web pages from Internet Explorer. Greenshot easily annotates, highlights, or obfuscates parts of the screenshot. Greenshot also exports screenshots in various ways: save to file, send to printer, copy to clipboard, attach to e-mail, send Microsoft Office programs, or upload to photo sites like Flickr or Picasa. And Greenshot has a lot more options, to simplify the creation of, and work with, screenshots every day. Overall, Greenshot is easy to understand and configurable, that's why it is an efficient tool for project managers, software developers, technical writers, testers, and anyone else creating screenshots.

Bring Your Old Photos to Life with RetroShine – Vibrant, Authentic, and Instantly Beautiful RetroShine transforms your digitized analog photos with a single click. Whether you’re reviving family memories or preserving your artistic legacy for future generations, RetroShine uses intelligent color enhancement and curve corrections to restore natural tones and give your photos a fresh, contemporary look. Authenticity is our mission. Unlike generative AI tools, RetroShine doesn’t manipulate your images or invent fake details that never existed. It analyzes each photo and adjusts color curves dynamically for a crisp, natural-looking, beautifully balanced result, just the way people expect in the digital age. No subscriptions. No ads. No data collection. Privacy guaranteed.

Krokus is an application written in C++ and wxWidgets, which helps you to print photos like with many printing software available on windows. It has advanced features like: color management,softproofing, cropping, easy layout control and much more...

Project has moved to: https://github.com/lsolesen/pel/ The PHP Exif Library (PEL) provides an easy-to-use library written in pure object-oriented PHP5 which will allow you to read and write the Exif tags commenly found in JPEG and TIFF photos taken w