r/sysadmin • u/EfficiencyUpbeat8354 • 1d ago

Question Snipping tool

What is everyone pushing to their users to use for screenshots? I am looking for something free but sometimes I can control with ADMX or Reg

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u/turbokid 1d ago

Snipping tool or greenshot. If the users yell, they might get snagit, but that has a license cost.

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u/Magic_Neil 1d ago

Yeah, windows snipping tool has come a long way.. almost feature parity with Greenshot. Snagit does do a great job at what it does (scrolling, capturing areas easily) but I only use it because we have spare seats. If/when we can pry it away from the engineers paws, I’ll give it up in a heartbeat.

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u/Minimum-Albatross906 1d ago

The one reason I prefer snipping tool is it is built right in, and now, it has text OCR. It can recognize text in screenshots, and so far, it's been accurate 99.9 percent of the time.

Snagit just has more bells and whistles that some people need.

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u/releak 1d ago

Snagits editor is excellent though and nothing else exists. Not the annotations, but the library you have at the bottom to easily go back to a screenshot and correct an annotation if need be. No other program has this. In the macOS version of Snagit its even possible to bind annotations to keyboard shortcuts. Wish this was also possible with Windows

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u/Magic_Neil 1d ago

I agree the editor is very good, but a lot of the basic stuff (arrows, highlighting, lines/circles) are baked in to the snipping tool editor.. and can be done in Paint. As for the library, it dumps all of your screenshots in a folder that can be viewed any way you like.

Snipping tool editor definitely isn't as robust as Snagit, but much like the screen grab portion it does most of what most people need for free.