Complete guide to every tool and capability in CaptureX Pro — with usage examples and tips.
CaptureX Pro offers four powerful capture modes to grab exactly what you need from your screen. Each mode can be combined with a customizable delay for capturing menus, tooltips, and dynamic content.
Click and drag to select any rectangular area on your screen. The selection shows exact pixel dimensions in real-time. Perfect for capturing specific UI elements, code snippets, or document sections.
Instantly captures your entire screen in one click. Ideal for documentation, reporting, and when you need the full context of what's displayed.
Click any window to capture it perfectly — including the title bar and borders. Windows are highlighted as you hover, making selection intuitive.
Draw any custom shape to capture. The selection follows your mouse precisely, allowing irregular capture areas for creative or specific needs.
Set a delay of 1, 2, 3, or 5 seconds before the capture triggers. This gives you time to open menus, hover over elements to show tooltips, or arrange your screen before snapping.
A complete set of professional annotation tools to communicate clearly through your screenshots. Every tool supports customizable colors, sizes, and styles.
Free-draw on your screenshot with adjustable thickness and any color. Uses smooth anti-aliased rendering for clean lines.
Semi-transparent overlay perfect for emphasizing text or regions. Mimics a real highlighter marker with blending.
Draw directional arrows to point at specific elements. Great for callouts and directing attention in documentation.
Draw rectangles to frame and highlight areas. Supports both outline and filled modes with adjustable border width.
Add text labels with custom font size, color, and positioning. Perfect for adding explanations and labels directly on screenshots.
Auto-incrementing numbered circles for creating step-by-step guides. Numbers automatically increase (1, 2, 3...) as you click.
Blur or pixelate sensitive information like passwords, personal data, or confidential content. Drag over the area to redact.
Resize and crop your screenshot to show only the relevant portion. Precise pixel controls for exact dimensions.
Add emoji stickers for fun, emphasis, or quick visual communication. Choose from a panel of popular emojis.
Add a professional border around your screenshot with customizable color and width. Makes screenshots stand out in documents.
Draw thick marker-style lines for bold emphasis. Thicker and more visible than the pen tool.
Fill areas with a solid color. Useful for covering large sections or creating colored backgrounds.
Creating a clear bug report screenshot:
A dedicated image editor window with all annotation tools plus advanced editing capabilities for professional image manipulation.
The Image Editor provides a spacious canvas with all annotation tools available in a professional toolbar. Additionally, you get:
Record your screen as a video file for creating tutorials, documenting bugs, or making presentations. Powered by the DXGI Desktop Duplication engine for high-quality, high-performance capture.
The Screen Recorder captures your screen as an MP4 video file using the advanced DXGI Desktop Duplication (ddagrab) engine — delivering smoother, higher-quality recordings than traditional GDI capture.
Uses Desktop Duplication API for hardware-accelerated screen capture. Higher quality, better performance, and proper window exclusion support.
Record your entire screen or select a specific region with pixel-perfect accuracy.
Add a floating webcam overlay with circle, square, or borderless shape. Drag, resize, and mirror in real-time.
Record system audio, microphone, or both. Automatic device detection with special character support.
Built-in Teleprompter for reading scripts while recording. Invisible to the recording — only you can see it on screen.
Record as GIF with two-pass palette optimization for small file sizes and high quality animations.
Record step-by-step software tutorials for colleagues, students, or customers.
Show developers exactly how to reproduce a bug with a video recording.
A built-in teleprompter that lets you read scripts while recording your screen. It uses advanced Windows display affinity technology to remain completely invisible to the recorder — only you can see it on your monitor.
The Teleprompter is accessible from the Screen Recorder window. Load your script and it scrolls automatically while recording.
Uses Windows Display Affinity (WDA_EXCLUDEFROMCAPTURE) to stay completely hidden from screen recordings.
Vertical scroll mode for traditional teleprompter or horizontal ticker mode for news-style scrolling.
Adjust scroll speed, font size, text color, background opacity, and window size to your preference.
Flip text horizontally for use with reflective glass teleprompter setups.
Transform your entire screen into an interactive whiteboard. Draw, annotate, and present directly over any application — perfect for live demos, teaching, and presentations.
The whiteboard provides a full-screen transparent overlay with these drawing tools:
Using Whiteboard mode during a live presentation:
Extract text from any screenshot or image using Tesseract OCR engine. Supports English and Arabic text with high accuracy. Translate extracted text into 10+ languages instantly.
The OCR tool uses the Tesseract engine (locally, no internet required) to recognize and extract text from images.
Received a code snippet as an image? Extract it as text to paste directly into your IDE.
Screenshot a physical document or PDF image and extract the text for editing.
Translate extracted text into Arabic, English, German, French, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Turkish, Portuguese, and more.
Copy extracted or translated text to clipboard with one click. Ready to paste anywhere.
Pick any color from anywhere on your screen. Get instant HEX, RGB, and HSL values with a magnifier preview. Essential for designers and frontend developers.
The Color Picker transforms your cursor into a precision color-picking tool with a magnified preview.
#0078D4) to clipboard. Measure pixel distances on your screen with precision. Perfect for checking spacing, sizes, and alignment in UI design work.
The Screen Ruler provides an on-screen measurement overlay.
Pin any screenshot as a floating, always-on-top window. Works like a sticky note that stays visible while you work in other applications.
Pinned screenshots float above all other windows, staying visible no matter what application is in focus.
Browse, search, and manage all your past screenshots in one place. Never lose a capture again.
The history window provides a visual gallery of all saved screenshots with management tools.
Screenshots are automatically saved with intelligent file names and organized into daily folders. No manual saving required.
The auto-save system uses intelligent naming based on context:
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Full right-to-left (RTL) layout support for Arabic. The entire UI mirrors automatically when Arabic is selected, following proper RTL conventions.
Work faster with full keyboard shortcut support. All major actions can be triggered without touching the mouse.
| Shortcut | Action | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Ctrl + Shift + S | Region Capture | Global (system tray) |
| Print Screen | Full Screen Capture | Global |
| Ctrl + Z | Undo | Editor / Main Window |
| Ctrl + Y | Redo | Editor / Main Window |
| Ctrl + S | Save | Editor / Main Window |
| Ctrl + C | Copy to Clipboard | Editor / Main Window |
| Ctrl + V | Paste from Clipboard | Main Window |
| Escape | Cancel / Close | Any overlay/window |
| Delete | Delete Selection | Editor |
Customize every aspect of the application to match your workflow.
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