Paginaut

Free Screenshot & Text Toolkit: viewport, full-page and region capture, OCR, QR reader, character count, transliteration, export.

Paginaut is a productivity extension that combines screenshot tools and text tools in one lightweight package. SCREENSHOT TOOLS Capture Current Screen (Viewport) * Full page (default): scroll the tab and stitch viewport screenshots (no debugger); optional legacy full page via Chrome DevTools Protocol when enabled in Options * Very tall pages may save as multiple numbered PNGs to Downloads with an in-extension preview (multipart mode; crop applies to the preview thumbnail only for copy/save of that preview) Capture Selected Region * Unified preview window for all screenshot captures: format, quality, copy, save * Post-capture crop in preview (current screen, full page single image, region): draw a crop area, resize with handles, move selection, ✓ / ✕ on the crop box; Reset image restores the original capture * Save as PNG, JPG, or WEBP * Copy image directly to clipboard TEXT TOOLS * Text Grab (OCR) from a selected screen region (same drag-to-select flow as region capture) * QR code reader: select a region that contains a QR code; decode runs locally with bundled jsQR; result opens in a dedicated window with Copy and Save .txt (optional feature flag in Options, like OCR) * Character count: optional clipboard paste into an editor with live stats (words, characters, paragraphs, lines, whitespace breakdown, UTF-8 length, approximate reading time); toggle in options * Local OCR flow using bundled assets (Tesseract) * Save extracted / decoded text as .txt * Copy extracted / decoded text to clipboard REGION SELECTION UX * For region capture, Text Grab, and QR code reader, the in-page overlay includes the top hint bar (Capture / Cancel) plus confirm (✓) and cancel (✕) on the selection box * After drawing a region, resize (8 handles) and move the selection; Shift locks aspect ratio (same interaction model as preview crop) TRANSLITERATION * Convert between Latin and Cyrillic scripts * Automatic script detection mode * Manual target script selection CUSTOMIZATION * Page context menu: right-click on a page → Paginaut submenu with the same enabled tools and order as the popup (from Options layout and feature flags) * Popup layout: drag-and-drop tool order in Options (Favorites, Screenshot, Text columns) with the same per-tool enable/disable checkboxes as before * Feature flags in Options page (enable/disable each major feature) UI LOCALIZATION Language override in Options (Auto/browser, English, Serbian) PRIVACY-FIRST BEHAVIOR * Processing is performed locally inside the extension (full page defaults to scroll-based stitching; optional legacy CDP path — no cloud screenshot service) * The extension’s features do not require internet for their own operation (opening a live website is separate) * User explicitly triggers all capture and processing actions