Privacy Policy

Last updated: 2026-09-01

Overview

Paginaut is a browser extension for screenshots (viewport, full page, region, desktop screen/window/tab), screen video recording, including local preview annotation and crop, Image annotator (local file or pasted image without tab capture), OCR text extraction, QR decoding from a selected on-screen region, character/word statistics from user-provided text (including optional clipboard paste), change case of typed text, and transliteration. We are committed to minimizing data collection and keeping processing local.

What data Paginaut processes

Paginaut may process the following content, only when triggered by the user:

• Visible web page pixels for screenshot capture
• Desktop pixels from a screen, window, or tab the user explicitly selects in Chrome’s share picker (Desktop capture; single still frame, local only)
• Screen recording from the same picker while the user keeps sharing; video is stored locally (IndexedDB) until preview/export
• Webcam and microphone for screen record only when the user enables those options and presses Start (Chrome’s permission prompt is in the visible setup UI; capture stays local and is not uploaded)
• User-selected region pixels for OCR or QR decoding (same style of region selection; QR payload is derived locally)
• Screenshot pixels in the preview window for crop and annotation (shapes, text, blur, etc.) before Save/Copy — all local; annotations are discarded if the preview is closed without export
• Images the user opens in Image annotator (local file, drag-and-drop, clipboard paste, or right-click on a page image in the context menu)—processed only in the extension preview; not uploaded to Paginaut servers
• Text entered by the user in transliteration or Change case tools, or selected on a page and opened via the Paginaut context menu (selection context)
• Text pasted or typed in the Character count tool (processed locally in the extension window; optional one-time clipboard read when opening that tool)

Data storage

Paginaut stores data locally in browser extension storage:

• Feature flags/settings
• Popup tool order (Favorites / Screenshot / Text columns from Options drag-and-drop; key popupToolLayout) — UI layout only, not page content
• Language preference override
• Most recent captured image / OCR source / last QR crop (temporary app state), or a small preview image when a long full-page capture produced several files saved directly to Downloads
• Optional short-lived context menu prefill (contextMenuPrefillText) when opening a text tool from a text selection in the right-click menu
• Optional short-lived metadata describing the last capture (lastShotInfo: capture type such as viewport, full page, region, desktop, or multipart segment count and filename prefix)
• Screen recordings in local IndexedDB (paginaut-videos) plus lastRecordingId / lastRecordingMeta until the preview window exports or is closed
• In-preview crop and annotation edit the stored preview image locally before export; no additional network transfer
• Annotation layers exist only in the open preview session until Save/Copy flattens them (or the window is closed)

No user account or identity profile is created by Paginaut.

Data sharing

Paginaut does not sell user data.

By default, Paginaut does not transmit screenshot/text/video content to external application servers for processing. Operations are intended to run locally inside the extension runtime.

Offline use (extension scope)

Paginaut does not rely on an internet connection for its core processing: capture, stitching, preview crop/annotation, saving to Downloads, clipboard copy, bundled OCR and QR (jsQR) libraries, local text statistics (Character count), Change case, transliteration, and UI localization files shipped inside the extension all run locally. Opening or refreshing a remote website in a tab still follows normal browser rules (that tab may need a network). Using the extension on pages that are already available offline (or local documents, where Chrome permits) does not add a separate online dependency for Paginaut itself.

Permissions usage summary

• activeTab, tabs, scripting: capture and region selection workflows (including scroll-stitch full-page helpers in the active tab when you run full-page capture)
• desktopCapture: user-triggered Desktop capture (one still frame) and Screen record (video while sharing)—Chrome’s picker for screen/window/tab; local processing only
• Host access (<all_urls>): allows the same user-triggered flows on whichever site you have open; the extension does not collect browsing history or run unattended scraping. It only acts when you use a Paginaut action on the current tab.
• downloads: save generated files at user request; for very tall full-page captures, also save numbered segment files when the user runs full page capture (scroll-stitch)
• clipboardWrite: copy image/text at user request (screenshots, OCR/QR/transliteration results, Change case output)
• clipboardRead: optional one-time plain-text read when opening Character count to pre-fill the editor; paste image in Image annotator preview when the user presses paste (user-triggered; no continuous monitoring)
• contextMenus: Paginaut right-click submenu—page (all enabled tools), text selection (text tools with selected text), and image (annotator/OCR/QR with the clicked image); user-triggered only
• offscreen: creates a hidden extension document for Screen record capture and encoding while the popup is closed; no page content is sent to external servers
• storage: save settings, popup layout, and local state as described above

User control

Users can:

• Enable/disable features in Options (feature flags)
• Reorder tools and favorites in Options (stored only as layout preferences)
• Change UI language override (Auto/English/Serbian)
• Decide when to capture/copy/save content

Data retention

Stored data remains in local extension storage until:

• user overwrites it via new actions,
• user changes settings,
• user removes extension data or uninstalls the extension.

Contact

If you have privacy questions, contact paginaut@webinvade.rs or the publisher via the support contact listed in the Chrome Web Store.