LucentShot

A fast Windows screenshot tool, inspired by Lightshot. Capture a region, mark it up, then copy, save, print, or share it.

It lives in the tray. Press Print Screen or left-click the tray icon, then drag.

Features

• Full-screen overlay with region select and resize handles
• Pen, line, arrow, rectangle (outline or filled), marker, and text
• Copy, save, print, upload, and image search
• OCR and text-to-speech (default build)
• Customizable hotkeys, including instant fullscreen save/upload and copy focused window
• PNG, JPEG, BMP, and GIF export
• Start with Windows, action notifications, and cursor capture

Usage

1. Run LucentShot. It stays in the system tray.
2. Press Print Screen or left-click the tray icon.
3. Drag to select a region. Escape cancels.
4. Annotate with the side tools, then use the bottom bar to export.

Right-click the tray icon for Settings or Exit.

Overlay shortcuts

Shortcut	Action
Ctrl+C	Copy
Ctrl+S	Save
Ctrl+D	Upload
Ctrl+G	Image search
Ctrl+P	Print
Ctrl+A	Select the whole screen
Ctrl+Z / Ctrl+Shift+Z	Undo / redo
Esc	Close

Default global hotkeys

Hotkey	Action
Print Screen	Open the overlay
Shift+Print Screen	Save a fullscreen shot
Ctrl+Print Screen	Upload a fullscreen shot
Alt+Print Screen	Copy the focused window

Change these in Settings → Hotkeys.

Install

Download a release: the setup exe, or the portable zip.

The setup installs to %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\LucentShot, adds a Start Menu shortcut, and registers uninstall in Apps. After that you can find it from Start search. A desktop icon is optional.

The portable zip is the same files with no Start Menu entry. Keep lucentshot.exe, the DLLs, and tessdata together.

Bumping version in Cargo.toml on main/master publishes that release.

From source

git clone https://github.com/Dvow/LucentShot.git
cd LucentShot
cargo build --release
.\installer\Install-LucentShot.ps1

-Build compiles first. Uninstall with .\Install-LucentShot.ps1 -Uninstall.

OCR is on by default. cargo run --release --no-default-features turns it off.

Settings

Right-click the tray icon and choose Settings.

• General — start with Windows, capture options, sharing, and the config file path
• Hotkeys — overlay and instant-action shortcuts
• Formats — upload format and JPEG quality
• Speech — voice, rate, and volume (OCR builds)

Config is stored at %LOCALAPPDATA%\LucentShot\config.json unless you set another path.

License

LucentShot is MIT. Lucide icons, Tesseract, and Leptonica are noted there too.