Zala

Zala is a screenshot tool designed to capture images of your desktop. It has options to capture a specific region of the screen. Built using PyQt, Zala can be integrated into Python projects as a dependency.

If you're looking for a standalone program to create screenshots and don't plan to integrate it into a PyQt project, consider using maim. Maim is written in a more efficient language.

Install

Install using pipx from pypi.

pipx install zala

Python usage

Zala can be integrated into PyQt6 projects as a library. The example below shows how to capture a screenshot and let the user select a region.

import sys

from PyQt6.QtWidgets import QApplication
from zala.main_window import ZalaSelect
from zala.screenshot_preview import UserSelectionResult
from zala.screenshot import ZalaScreenshot


def main() -> None:
    app = QApplication(sys.argv)
    scr = ZalaScreenshot(app)

    def on_selection_finished(result: UserSelectionResult) -> None:
        if result.pixmap:
            result.pixmap.save("screenshot.png")
        app.quit()

    sel = ZalaSelect(scr.capture_screen())
    sel.selection_finished.connect(on_selection_finished)
    sel.showFullScreen()
    app.exec()


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

Bash examples

Take a region of the screen.

zala select

Verbose mode.

zala select -v

Show commands.

zala

Who uses Zala

• Lancet - OCR application for reading manga in Japanese.
• You?