Clipboard
Copy the current capture to the Windows clipboard as a PNG DIB, ready to paste into any image-capable target.
Quick Workflow
- Take or load a capture.
- Click Copy on the toolbar, or press
Ctrl+C. - Paste (
Ctrl+V) into the target app.
The command is only enabled while HasCapture == true. Copy renders the background image plus every annotation currently on the canvas — what you see is what gets copied.
Automatic Copy After Capture
Capture.CopyToClipboard (default true) copies the image to the clipboard immediately after each capture, before you add annotations. This means Ctrl+C is primarily used to re-copy after editing.
| Scenario | What's on the clipboard |
|---|---|
Capture.CopyToClipboard = true, no edits | Raw capture, pasted as-is. |
Capture.CopyToClipboard = true, you annotate then press Ctrl+C | Capture + annotations. |
Capture.CopyToClipboard = false, Ctrl+C | Capture + annotations. |
Turn off auto-copy in Settings → Capture if you annotate most screenshots before sharing — it avoids accidentally pasting the unmarked original.
Clipboard Format
The image is placed on the clipboard as PNG DIB. Windows apps that accept images (Word, Outlook, Teams, Slack, web browsers, Paint, Photoshop) will receive the full-resolution bitmap with transparency preserved.
Tip — apps that only accept text (Notepad, a terminal) will get nothing. Use Save and then attach the file instead.
OCR Text Copy
The OCR result popup has its own Copy button (also Ctrl+C while the popup has focus). This is a separate command on OcrResultViewModel.CopyToClipboardCommand — it places the extracted text on the clipboard as plain text, not an image.
| Command | Clipboard format |
|---|---|
MainWindowViewModel.CopyToClipboardCommand | PNG image. |
OcrResultViewModel.CopyToClipboardCommand | Plain text. |
Ocr.AutoCopyText (default false) copies OCR text automatically after extraction, the same way auto-copy works for images.
Related
- Save to a file instead: see 08.1.
- Extract text from the capture: see 04 - OCR and Text Extraction.