Standalone Tools

Standalone Tools

CyberSnap includes four standalone tools that work independently of the capture workflow: Color Picker, Ruler, Barcode / QR Scanner, and OCR. Each one has its own global hotkey slot (unbound by default, assign it in Settings → Hotkeys), a tile in the tray menu and the Capture Widget, and can also be invoked from the capture-overlay toolbar, which hands the session off to the standalone tool.

All four run as fullscreen overlays: an instruction banner explains the gesture, and right-click or Esc closes the tool.

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Color Picker

Samples any pixel on your screen with a live magnifier.

How to Use

1. Trigger the Color Picker (via hotkey, tray, widget, or capture overlay)
2. A magnifier follows your cursor showing a zoomed 11×11 pixel grid with crosshair
3. Left-click to sample the pixel under the cursor
4. The HEX value (e.g. #00F2FF) is copied to the clipboard, saved to color history, and shown in a toast with a color swatch plus R / G / B values
5. Right-click or Esc to cancel

Notes

• The magnifier samples the live screen (~30 ms refresh)
• Picked colors appear in Gallery history alongside captures

Color Detail Window (Optional)

Instead of just the toast, an optional detail window can open after each pick:

• HEX/RGB/HSL rows with per-row copy, contrast info, and favorite-format preview
• Recent swatches, pick-another-color from screen, and auto-copy on pick
• Its own options: Show this window after picking, Auto-copy on pick, Favorite format, Include # in HEX

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Ruler

Measures pixel distances on a frozen screenshot of your monitors.

How to Use

1. Trigger the Ruler (via hotkey, tray, widget, or capture overlay)
2. The screen freezes; click and drag to draw a measurement
3. The chip on the measurement shows the pixel distance (plus width × height for the span)
4. Draw again to add more measurements, or drag a committed ruler to move it / drag its ends to resize it
5. Hold Shift while dragging to constrain the angle (45° snap)
6. Right-click or Esc to close; the chip also has close/exit buttons

Context Menu (Right-Click)

Settings

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Barcode / QR Scanner

Decodes barcodes and QR codes from your screen.

How to Use (Standalone)

1. Trigger the Scanner (via hotkey, tray, widget, or capture overlay)
2. A dimmed screenshot overlay appears; drag a rectangle around the code
3. CyberSnap decodes the content in the background with a scan-line animation
4. The result opens in the standalone QR Result window

How to Use (On Capture)

1. Take a screenshot containing a barcode
2. The scanner automatically detects and decodes any codes
3. Results appear alongside the capture

Supported Code Types

Result Actions

After decoding, you can:

• Copy the decoded text to clipboard
• Open URL — If the content is a URL, open it in browser
• Search — Search the decoded text on the web
• Save — Save the result to history

Results open in the standalone QR Result window, with a scan-line animation during decoding.

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OCR (Standalone)

Extracts text from any screen region without taking a screenshot first. Full documentation lives on the OCR & Translation page.

How to Use

1. Trigger OCR (via its standalone hotkey, tray, widget, or capture overlay)
2. A dimmed screenshot overlay appears; drag a rectangle around the text (smart window detection can suggest the region)
3. Tesseract extracts the text in the background with a scan-line animation; the selection stays visible while processing
4. The result opens in the OCR Result window: editable text, confidence score, detected language, and copy / translate / search actions

Notes

• The overlay context menu, OCR result footer, and Settings share the independent OcrAutoCopyToClipboard preference. Other result types keep their own auto-copy choices. Turning auto-copy off enables the OCR result window.
• OCR language auto-follows your Windows display language (OcrLanguageTag = auto), or set it manually, see OCR & Translation

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Tool Settings & Hotkeys