Open Source Python Capture Software

The Hewlett-Packard Linux Imaging and Printing Project provides a unified single and multi-function connectivity solution for Linux. For support and help, please visit https://launchpad.net/hplip

NOTE: Project migrated to GitHub in Dec 2020! See https://github.com/Enselic/recordmydesktop recordMyDesktop is a program that captures audio-video data of a linux desktop session, producing an ogg-encapsulated theora-vorbis file. recordMyDesktop tries to be as unobstrusive as possible by proccessing only regions of the screen that have changed

You-Get is a small command-line utility for downloading media (video, audio and images) from the Web when there are no other means to do so. It can download video and audio files from such popular web sites as YouTube, Twitter, Niconico, Vimeo, Flickr, Instagram and a whole lot more. You-Get is a great option for when you want to enjoy your favorite videos, audio or images from the internet without having to open any web browsers or get interrupted by ads. It’s also a good choice for when you want to get rid of any closed-source technology or proprietary JavaScript code from running on your computer.

Automatically geocode pictures from your camera and a GPS track log. Following Google code closure the only official webpage is (doc, support, code) : https://github.com/notfrancois/GPicSync

libiptcdata is a standalone C-library for reading and writing the International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC) metadata contained in various data files such as images.

Welcome to EasyCap, your ultimate desktop screen recorder and screenshot editor. Designed with simplicity and power in mind, EasyCap is perfect for professionals, creators, and anyone looking to capture their PC activities with ease. Whether you're creating tutorials, recording gameplay, or capturing important moments, EasyCap makes it effortless.

asciinema is a free and open source terminal session recorder. It lets you easily record and play back terminal sessions in the terminal or in a web browser. Forget old screen recording methods and resulting blurry videos. asciinema lets you record your terminal sessions the right way, which is right where you work, in the terminal. Recording is as easy as running one command, and since it’s purely text-based you can copy and paste any content you want, simply pause the recording! You can also easily share your recordings on the web, embed an asciicast player in your blog post, project documentation page or in your conference talk slides. See plenty of example sessions recorded with asciinema here: https://asciinema.org/

Linux-intelligent-ocr-solution Lios is a free and open source software for converting print in to text using either scanner or a camera, It can also produce text out of scanned images from other sources such as Pdf, Image, Folder containing Images or screenshot. Program is given total accessibility for visually impaired. A Tesseract Trainer GUI is also shipped with this package. Forum : https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/lios Video Tutorial : https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLn29o8rxtRe1zS1r2-yGm1DNMOZCgdU0i Tesseract Training Tutorial (beta) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLpCld4cdtk Source Code Github : https://github.com/Nalin-x-Linux/lios-3 Gitlab : https://gitlab.com/Nalin-x-Linux/lios-3 User guide is available in download page

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Simulate HDR is a plugin for The GIMP that creates two layers from a single image simulating an underexposed and a overexposed shots, creating a High Dynamic Range image. It can create a tone mapping layer to compress the color range of the image.

Browsershots is a system for capturing screenshots of Web pages in many different browsers. When a user submits a web address on the central web interface, the screenshots are made automatically on distributed computers that are run by volunteers.

Take screenshots of the full screen, of the active window or of a custom region, apply it effects such as adding a drop down shadow or making it black & white, copy it to the clipboard and save it on disk, only in one step.

MMPython is a Media Meta Data retrieval framework. It retrieves metadata from mp3, ogg, avi, jpg, tiff and other file formats. Among others it thereby parses ID3v2, ID3v1, EXIF, IPTC and Vorbis data into an object oriented struture.

Full documentation: Download clipstitchX.Y.html To make movies from your camera (or phone) video files. FFmpeg is a professional-quality, free, open-source program for video editing, with the ability to implement a huge number of operations and handle every data format! This kind of ability comes at a cost: its commands are quite complex-looking and difficult to use and remember. Clipstitch runs as a front-end to ffmpeg so that you use only the sub-set of ffmpeg commands necessary for making a home movie from your digital camera, puts them in easier-to-read form, and internally combines multiple ffmpeg commands to do certain tasks.. You can put Clipstitch commands into a text file and run as a script or type them in manually at a prompt. You can: Select portions of motion files with optional fades/slowmo/speedup, reverse play backwards. Adjust clip order. Concatenate to make your final "movie". V5.5 introduced captions, and special effects features.

For the gimp-imparied people out there like me, a simple picture editor that attempts to allow simple editing features on screenshots. Applying the KISS principal, the goal was to make things like lines, arrows, circles, boxes, callouts to be simple. HELP NEEDED: Please sign up for a sourceforge account and write tickets. There are plenty of bugs, but it helps us if you see them and report them. Also, let us know what platform you are using oneshot on. Obviously it is currently targeted for Windows, but which version. Also, do you want to see a different OS targeted? Let us know.

Python application to scan DataMatrix barcodes using webcam. Uses libdmtx as backend decoder and pyGTK for display. Intended as a conference badge scanning application, but flexible enough to allow other applications.

A Simple Rather Useful Camera Feed. Built In An Universal-Language , Python. Uses Face Detection To Completely Automate The Photo-taking Process. And Mostly Described As An Universal Cross-Platform Camera Feed Software.

WebSANE is a web frontend for SANE making it possible to access a scanner with a browser.

GFrameCatcher is a program that captures frames from a video file and save these frames as thumbnails in a single image file or all frames into a folder.

MiniMonitor is a lightweight Windows application designed for monitoring capture cards and microphones with minimal system impact. Ideal for Elgato and other capture devices, it detects connected video and audio inputs, tests microphones, and provides real-time video and audio playback. Users can select devices through a simple GUI, toggle Fullscreen display, and quickly check functionality without heavy software overhead. Built with Python, OpenCV, PyAudio, and Tkinter, MiniMonitor is perfect for streamers, content creators, and anyone needing low-latency monitoring of capture cards and audio sources.

The Python Twain Module provide an interface to the Microsoft Windows TWAIN sub-system. The module implements the full TWAIN functionality and supports source specific extensions. A TWAIN-explorer is also included.

Qvid is a demo video streaming application for Windows (MacOs support limited and currently broken), written in Python. It allows you to capture screenshots of your desktop, webcam, and selected windows programs. The captured images are compressed and sent as a continuous stream over a TCP connection to a single machine. Developed alongside https://sourceforge.net/projects/netjoy/ to allow for off-site, single and multiplayer, game play over an internet connection.

A simple GUI frontend for scanning documents into PDF format. Utilizes scanimage, ps2pdf, pnmflip, and pnmtops commands. Automatically detects scanners avaliable on system. Developed on Linux but might work on other platforms with some tweaking.

BLIX is a cross-platform set of Python extension modules and Python scripts for Blender (www.blender.org). These scripts add camera calibration, 3D reconstruction and rigid body orientation to Blender.

DazzLed is a set of apps to control rgb-leds from you computer.