smart-screenshot

You can capture a screen region, run OCR via Tesseract, and format the extracted text into Markdown notes using MarkItDown. Press PrtSc to select a region and choose Text to generate the Markdown output.

The best way to automate screenshot OCR for research and documentation is to capture slides or code snippets, extract the text, and convert them directly into structured Markdown notes for review and sharing.

Yes, you need Python and an OCR engine like Tesseract to capture screens and convert images to Markdown. The workflow also uses Pillow for image annotation and MarkItDown for Markdown formatting.

Yes, you can select a specific screen region for OCR text extraction. The tool provides interactive region selection with an on-screen preview, allowing you to capture a targeted area before running OCR.

Yes, this screen capture tool supports optional multi-monitor setups and image annotation. You can capture content across multiple displays and annotate images before converting them to Markdown.

Using MarkItDown for OCR text formatting instead of plain text output structures extracted content into editable Markdown notes, making it easier to review and share research and code snippets.