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SmartCapture is a professional, easy to use screen capture tool.

SmartCapture is the professional, easy to use screen capture tool for Windows! The clear and intuitive user interface and powerful features make it the ideal utility for everyone who wants to capture any contents of the Windows desktop. It can capture rectangular screen areas, whole objects, windows or screens and it can acquire images from Twain compatible data sources (e.g. scanners, digital cameras, etc.) The captured images can be cropped very easily and the color depth can be changed to any desired value from monochrome to true color. Images can be printed, saved, copied to the clipboard, sent to an email recipient, MS Word or any image editor, etc. SmartCapture supports all major file formats, image manipulations (e.g. resize, flip, rotate, color replace, invert, optimized color palettes, dither, etc.), multiple monitors, full automation, capture wizards, capture profiles, multi-level undo and much more. Many options allow the customization of all actions to individual user needs. SmartCapture is not only one of the most powerful screen capture utilities available - it was also designed to be the most user-friendly tool of all!

Key Features:

* Capture modes: rectangle, window, active window, screen, area, fixed size
* Capture the mouse cursor
* Multiple monitor support (Windows 98, ME, 2000 and XP)
* Separate Hot-Keys for different capture modes
* Twain data source support (scanners, digital cameras, etc.)
* Image sources: capture, paste, load, acquire from Twain compatible data source
* Image destinations: save, print, copy, email, edit, MS Word, send
* Supported file formats: BMP, GIF, JPG, PNG, TIF
* Transparency support for GIF and PNG files
* Photocopy
* File conversion
* User definable profiles for each task
* Color conversion: 1, 4, 8, 24 Bit, color or grayscale
* Color reduction: dither or nearest color, optimized or standard color palettes
* Color replace, invert, auto invert
* Brightness, contrast
* Image geometry: resize, flip, rotate
* Print size support (dimensions and DPI)
* Undo and redo (multi-level)
* Automation, script support
* Clipboard text accumulator, URL launcher
* Print multiple images on one page (collect mode)
* Header and footer on printed pages
* Clear image areas
* Now with full 64 bit support

What's New:

* Fix: saving current settings and options when shutting down the computer
* Fix: removed Windows 2000 from the compatibility list