Open Source Capture Software

gPhoto is a program and library framework that lets users download pictures from their digital cameras. The libgphoto2 library gives you access to hundreds of models of digital cameras on several platforms. GIT repo and Issue tracker lives at https://github.com/gphoto/ these days.

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.

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.

Dayon! is an open source remote desktop and assistance solution. It is easy to use, secure, requires no registration and is free for personal and commercial use!

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.

Stopmotion is a Free Software application for creating stop-motion animated movies. It lets you create an animation from pictures captured from a webcam, a videocamera or from pictures imported from the harddrive, add sound effects and export a file.