User Guide
How to use Snipaze
Step-by-step instructions for every feature in the extension.
Screenshot capture
Click Capture → Screenshot in the toolbar. Snipaze captures the entire current page as a screenshot. A popup then appears in the upper-right corner of the page with three options:
- Copy — copy the screenshot to your clipboard
- Create a note — automatically create a new note with the screenshot pasted in
- Insert into existing note — add the screenshot to a note you already have
OCR text extraction
Click Extract → OCR Text and drag to select any region of the page — including areas inside images. Snipaze processes the selection and shows a popup in the upper-right corner with three options:
- Copy — copy directly to your clipboard
- Create a note — automatically create a new note with the content pasted in
- Insert into existing note — append the content to a note you already have
Before saving you can also choose what to include:
- Selected region — saves the screenshot of the area you drew
- Extracted text — saves only the OCR text output
- Selected region + extracted text — saves both the image and the text together
Auto-save clipboard
Toggle ON → Auto Save in the toolbar. From that point on, whenever you copy text on any page, Snipaze will show the note insertion popup automatically. Toggle it OFF to return to manual mode.
Managing notes
From the notes list you can:
- Rename or delete a note from its overflow menu
- Pin a note to keep it at the top of the list
- Move a note to a different category
- Export a single note or an entire category in .txt, Word (.docx), or PDF format — all exports include the source URL, page title, and timestamp
- Export all data at once from Settings
Categories
Click + Add Category in the sidebar to create a category. Assign notes to categories when saving them or by using the Move option later. Use the All Notes filter dropdown to view a specific category.
Backup & restore
Open Settings inside the extension and use Export All Data to download a complete backup of your notes, categories, images, and settings. Export formats available: .txt, Word (.docx), and PDF.
Using Snipaze with PDFs
You can still capture content from any PDF open in Chrome:
- Make sure Snipaze is pinned to your Chrome toolbar
- Open the PDF in Chrome as normal
- Click the Snipaze extension icon in the toolbar
- Click and drag to select the region of the PDF you want
- Choose to save it as an image, extract its text via OCR, or save both together