# "I" "made" hypr-lens, a standalone, portable toolkit that provides various screenshot/recording utilities

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**Created:** [December 8, 2025, 10:47pm UTC](http://forum.hypr.land/t/i-made-hypr-lens-a-standalone-portable-toolkit-that-provides-various-screenshot-recording-utilities/1196 "2025-12-08T22:47:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![sleepingsage](http://forum.hypr.land/user_avatar/forum.hypr.land/sleepingsage/32/984_2.png) [@sleepingsage](http://forum.hypr.land/u/sleepingsage)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2025, 10:47pm UTC](http://forum.hypr.land/t/i-made-hypr-lens-a-standalone-portable-toolkit-that-provides-various-screenshot-recording-utilities/1196/1 "2025-12-08T22:47:32Z")

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I was using end-4’s dots but recently switched to Hyprland DE. I really liked the screenshot, OCR, and recording tools from his dotfiles. They’re pretty and just work nicely. So I extracted and refactored them into a standalone toolkit.

hypr-lens provides region capture, OCR, Google Lens search, screen recording (with and without sound), and a color picker for Hyprland.

I fixed some minor bugs along the way. Tested and should “just work” on Arch (only distro supported).

Please report any bugs on GitHub. PRs are welcome!

🔗 [GitHub - thesleepingsage/hypr-lens: A standalone, portable toolkit that provides a polished region selector UI with window detection, screenshot capture, OCR text extraction, Google Lens integration, and screen recording.](https://github.com/thesleepingsage/hypr-lens)

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