screenshot-saver 1.0.0

Simple cross-platform screenshot tool with clipboard monitoring, annotations, and HTML export.

Screenshot Saver

A simple, cross-platform screenshot tool with clipboard monitoring, optional annotations, and HTML export.

Features

• Clipboard monitoring — automatically captures screenshots from Win+Shift+S (Snip & Sketch) or any image copied to clipboard
• Annotations — optionally add text notes to each screenshot
• HTML export — generates a single HTML document with all screenshots embedded (base64)
• Low-CPU background mode — reduces polling when minimized
• Cross-platform — works on Windows, macOS, and Linux
• Hotkeys — Ctrl+Shift+R to restore from background

Installation

pip install screenshot-saver

Usage

Command line

screenshot-saver

As a Python module

python -m screenshot_saver

From Python code

from screenshot_saver import SimpleScreenshotTool

app = SimpleScreenshotTool()
app.run()

First Run

On the first run, the app will prompt you to choose:

1. A folder to save screenshot images
2. A location for the HTML document

These settings are saved and reused on subsequent runs.

Default locations:

• Config: %APPDATA%/screenshot_saver/ (Windows) · ~/.config/screenshot_saver/ (Linux) · ~/Library/Application Support/screenshot_saver/ (macOS)
• Screenshots: ~/Pictures/ScreenshotSaver/

Requirements

• Python 3.8+
• pillow (for screen/clipboard capture)
• pynput (for global hotkey detection)
• tkinter (included with most Python installations)

Build Standalone EXE (Windows)

pip install pyinstaller
pyinstaller --onefile --windowed --name ScreenshotSaver -m screenshot_saver

License

MIT