Video capture mode records whatever happens on all or part of the screen (if a portion is selected using the crosshair) as an MP4 file. Unfortunately, the text capture mode lacks OCR for cleanly extracting text from Flash-based sites and PDFs.
The only snag here is that Snagit preserves the columnar layout of the captured text by spacing lines across successive columns using tabs, rather than reformatting it into one column, so some editing is needed to make it usable. Text mode is intended for web pages where text can’t be directly or properly selected, but its crosshair selection is also useful for extracting text from layouts that use multiple columns. In addition to images, Snagit can also capture text and video. This has options for including the mouse pointer in the captured image, capturing multiple screen selections sequentially and specifying a destination program for the captured image other than Snagit's own editor. The flexible All-in-One capture mode used here should suit most requirements, but Snagit’s capture behaviour can be fine-tuned in the Settings window.
Clicking one of these scrolls the window automatically as Snagit captures the appropriate sections, which are then all stitched together to make a seamless whole. A web page that’s taller and/or wider than its browser window, for example, causes Snagit to displays yellow scroll buttons on the window's bottom edge, right-hand and bottom-right corner, as required. So far, so straightforward, but Snagit’s strengths come to the fore when capturing the content of a window that won’t all fit into one screen. The entire screen can then be captured by clicking the crosshair anywhere, while clicking and dragging it captures the selected area - something that’s assisted by the crosshair’s pixel-level magnification. Once installed, Snagit overrides Windows’ default Print Screen key behaviour (though the shortcut can be changed) and, when pressed, this instead pops up a crosshair on the screen.
#SNAGIT 12 TEXT CAPTURE UPDATE#
So in summary, they took a nice program, made needless GUI changes to make idiots happy, made it work very, verrrrrry slowly, and charged an update fee.įortunately, TechSmith is good at providing refunds.Now on version 11, Snagit has been around since 1990, but the program has long since expanded to include all manner of screen capture and subsequent image-editing features. (And gee whiz, who doesn't want the SnagIt Editor running at all times?) Without that option enabled, I found it absolutely maddening. Even if you enable that option, the editor is aggravatingly slow. That delay is only partially mitigated if you configure the SnagIt Editor to run in the background at all times. Then, if I had it set to open the capture in the editor, there would be another extremely aggravating delay while the editor opened. By contrast, version 8 works smoothly for me.) Finally, SnagIt would kick in, and present me with the option to choose a window (or region, as the case may be) to capture. (I'm not exaggerating-each time I wanted to capture, I had to wait almost half a minute to do so.
What I immediately noticed was not improved features, but having to deal with annoying GUI changes, and incredibly ssssssssssssslow program operation.įor example, I would click capture, and then have to wait literally 20 seconds for anything to happen. I updated (note that I do not say "up graded") from version 8. And it's completely unnecessary (objective). It's ugly (a subjective point), but also much slower (objective).
#SNAGIT 12 TEXT CAPTURE SKIN#
However, I completely despise the skin garbage they've added to it. SnagIt was among the very best in this genre.
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