Though not clear from its name, ShareX is actually an open-source application built to take screenshots of your desktop or of any user-defined area of the screen. The resulting image is transferred directly to the program’s interface, and from there you can either save it to disk or upload it directly to any of the most commonly used image sharing sites.
In terms of image capture capabilities, ShareX is nothing short of fabulous. It has not only been designed to be extremely easy to use – key shortcuts for all the most common actions included – but it also exceeds the usual capture options of specific areas, windows, or the full screen by adding extremely rare features, such as a text capture option that OCRs the selected image or section and extracts any non-readable text included in it. Not only can it capture any region of your desktop, but also add a Light or a Transparent effect to it on the fly. It may also make a GIF recording of any action taking place on your screen, perform a Scrolling capture of, say, a webpage, or to take a snapshot of a Window menu.
Though the program lacks its own image editor to enhance or correct the captured image, it allows you to select one and open it right after the capture. This is just one of the many “after capture tasks” that ShareX offers, together with scanning any QR code included in the image (or create a new one for you, for that matter), adding a watermark, saving it to any of the most widely used image file formats, or uploading it to an online image sharing site. This is surely one of the program’s star features, and it allows you to upload your screenshots to a number of highly-reputed image sites (such as Flickr, ImageShack, Photobucket, or Google Photos) and generic file sharing sites (Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive, or Amazon S3, and any FTP, FTPS, or SFTP server).
ShareX can capture in a rectangle, ellipse, or in any freehand shape of your choice a specific region of your screen with a hotkey and send it to your favorite image or file hosting site in seconds. It can upload entire folders of images or other files, text, and even from a URL or the Windows context menu. This versatility, combined with its powerful set of “after capture tasks”, offers you an extensive choice of actions and features that makes other paid and free capture tools pale in comparison.
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