v1.4.0 — Themes + Auto-Start

What's New

Dark / Light Mode + High Contrast

• 4 theme options: Dark, Light, Dark High Contrast, Light High Contrast
• Dark = Catppuccin Mocha, Light = Catppuccin Latte
• Switches live — no restart needed

Auto-Start with Windows

• New "Start with Windows" checkbox in settings
• Launches minimized to system tray on login
• Uses per-user registry (no admin needed)

Settings Redesign

• Grouped into cards: Hotkey, General, Overlay, Monitors
• Cleaner layout with section headers

Download

ScreenFind.exe — single file, no install needed. Just run it.

v1.3.2 — Lite + Focus Fix

What's Changed

• Removed PaddleOCR — uses only built-in Windows OCR, exe size reduced from ~600MB to ~179MB
• Fixed search box focus — search box now auto-focuses reliably when the overlay opens, no more clicking needed

Everything else remains the same: real-time search, highlights, drag-to-select, multi-monitor, fuzzy matching, etc.

Looking for PaddleOCR? The PaddleOCR version is preserved on the paddle-ocr branch.

Download

Download ScreenFind.exe below — single file, no install needed. Just run it.

ScreenFind v1.3.0

What's New

Performance

• Near-instant hotkey response — overlay windows are pre-warmed at startup (HWND + layout cached). Hotkey latency reduced from ~1s to ~100-200ms (4-5x faster)
• Smoother drag-to-select — highlight rectangles are pooled and reused instead of recreated every frame
• Non-blocking clipboard — copy operations run on a background thread so the UI never freezes

UI

• Custom app icon — new icon (magnifying glass + screen with highlighted text) replaces the generic Windows icon in taskbar, titlebar, and system tray

Under the Hood

• Overlay windows hidden on dismiss instead of destroyed, reused on next hotkey press
• Screen capture runs on background thread via Task.Run
• Removed leftover debug output

Full Changelog: v1.2.0...v1.3.0

ScreenFind v1.2.0

What's New

• PaddleOCR engine — optional high-accuracy OCR engine, available as a checkbox in Settings. Significantly more accurate than Windows OCR on small and low-contrast text.
  • Trade-offs: ~5-6 seconds extra per capture, ~600 MB RAM (vs ~150 MB with default Windows OCR)
  • Default is OFF — Windows OCR remains the default for speed
  • Engine pre-loads in background when enabled so first capture is faster
  • Works alongside Enhanced OCR (image preprocessing) for best results

Downloads

File	Size	Description
ScreenFind.exe	~555 MB	Full version with PaddleOCR support
ScreenFind-Lite.exe	~179 MB	Lighter version without PaddleOCR (all other features included)

Notes

• All existing features (search, fuzzy matching, click-to-copy, drag-to-select, multi-monitor) work in both versions
• ScreenFind-Lite is identical to v1.1.0

ScreenFind v1.1.0

What's New

• Multi-monitor support — captures all monitors simultaneously, each gets its own overlay. The primary monitor hosts the search bar, and search results sync across all overlays.
• Monitor picker — choose which monitors to include/exclude in Settings.
• Settings & About tabs — reorganized main window with a clean tabbed UI for all preferences.

Download

Download ScreenFind.exe below — standalone exe, no installation needed. Requires Windows 10 (build 19041+) or Windows 11.

ScreenFind v1.0.0

ScreenFind v1.0.0

Ctrl+F for your entire screen. Uses OCR to find and highlight any text visible on screen.

Features

• Global hotkey (customizable) to capture screen and search
• Real-time search with yellow highlight overlays
• Fuzzy matching (blue highlights) for OCR misreads
• Match navigation with Enter / Shift+Enter
• Click-to-copy on match highlights
• Drag-to-select text anywhere on overlay (green highlights, auto-copies to clipboard)
• Enhanced OCR mode for low-contrast text
• System tray support
• Standalone exe — no installation needed

Download

Download ScreenFind.exe below and double-click to run. Works on any Windows 10/11 machine — no .NET install required.