DeskScan

DeskScan is an easy-to-use software utility that enables users to capture the full screen or selected area, and save it to a wide array of image formats, namely BMP, PNG, GIF, TIF, PCS, JPG and JP2 (quality or lossless), in addition to PDF. It features TWAIN support for acquiring scanner pictures as well.

Installing the tool takes little time and minimal effort. Its interface does not contain any striking visual elements, but it is very simple to get around.

The full screen or selected area can be easily captured with the click of two buttons. A preview of the picture is shown in the main frame, and you can check out its original dimension, in full page mode, as well as fit it to the page, width or height.

Unfortunately, the image preview does not enlarge when maximizing the screen, so it is not possible to see pictures in their full size, apart from scrolling the small rectangular form.

Before saving the photographs to file by pointing out the output directory, file name and format, you can adjust the DPI and make DeskScan copy the item to the Clipboard too. Fetching pictures from the scanner is easily done, as well as saving it to file directly without previewing it, along with selecting the scanner device.

DeskScan has minimal impact on system performance, running on light CPU and RAM. It has a good response time and works well, without causing Windows to hang, crash or pop up error messages. We have not come across any kind of issues throughout our evaluation.

Although it is not the most resourceful screen grabber on the market, DeskScan gets the job done error-free and features support for many popular image formats for the output. No recent updates have been made.