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When you launch Snagit, the app displays a mini control that peeks out from the top edge of your display. It sports a big red button for taking a screenshot and smaller buttons for various settings options. The text-scraping option is no longer available.
The big red screen-capture button is only one of many possible ways to start a screen capture; by default, Snagit also lets you press the PrtSc key (or any other keyboard shortcut that you prefer) to start a capture.
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If you've tried other screen-capture apps in the past, you know that it isn't easy to find an app that can capture drop-down lists and other Windows features that tend to disappear when you press a key. Snagit's incredibly useful timed countdown feature alleviates the problem by letting you capture almost anything on screen. This should be a feature in all image capture apps.
Snagit lets you easily apply special effects to an image (like grayscale, text, arrows, and borders) without aspiring to be a super-tool (and a super-complicated tool, at that) like Adobe Illustrator. Its video-recording feature lets you include an audio track from either a microphone or Windows' own audio output–for example, from an MP3 recording on disk or a YouTube video. TechSmith's Fuse Android and iOS apps (both free) let you export images from your phone or tablet to a desktop running Snagit if the devices are on the same Wi-Fi network—and it works well.