Screen Cheese

Capture any page. Save it your way.

A free browser extension that grabs a full page, an area, or a single element and saves it as an image, PDF, or Word doc. Perfect for getting a website's info into AI for research.

Download for Chrome / Edge Download for Firefox

Version 1.2.1 · Free · Runs entirely on your computer, nothing is uploaded.

Blue robot taking a photo with a camera

Four ways to capture

Click the toolbar icon, pick a mode, and choose where to save.

Area

Drag a box around just the part you want.

Element

Hover and click a table, chart, or article to capture exactly that.

Full page

The entire page top to bottom, including panels that scroll inside the page.

Visible window

A quick shot of what's on screen right now.

Save as

Pick the format in the popup. Screen Cheese remembers your last choice.

PNGJPEGWebPBMPPDFWord (.docx)

Great for AI research

Long pages, dashboards, and docs are hard to copy cleanly. Capture them instead.

  1. Open the site you're researching and click Screen Cheese.
  2. Choose Full page and save as PDF (or Word or PNG).
  3. Upload the file to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or your AI of choice and ask your questions.

Captures are pictures, so the text isn't selectable. Use an AI that can read images.

Install

Not in a browser store yet, so it's a quick manual install.

Chrome & Edge

  1. Download and unzip to a folder you'll keep.
  2. Open chrome://extensions or edge://extensions.
  3. Turn on Developer mode.
  4. Click Load unpacked and choose the folder.
  5. Pin the robot icon to your toolbar.

Firefox 126+

  1. Download the Firefox ZIP (no need to unzip).
  2. Open about:debugging#/runtime/this-firefox.
  3. Click Load Temporary Add-on.
  4. Select the ZIP file.

Firefox removes temporary add-ons when it closes, so repeat after a restart.

FAQ

Is it safe? What does it send out?

Nothing. There are no servers, accounts, or tracking. Captures are built in your browser and saved with the normal Save As dialog.

Why does Chrome or Edge show a "debugging this browser" bar?

Full-page and area captures use the browser's debugger interface, which is the reliable way to render a whole page. The bar appears for a moment during a capture and goes away on its own. Firefox uses a different method and doesn't show it.

What permissions does it ask for?

Only what it needs: access to the tab you click it on, the ability to run the capture and selection overlay on that tab, and permission to save files. Chrome and Edge also need the debugger permission described above.

Why can't I capture some pages?

Browsers protect internal pages such as chrome://, edge://, about:, and extension stores. Screen Cheese will say so if you try.

My full-page capture of a very long page looks soft.

Extremely tall pages are scaled down to fit browser image limits. For sharp text, capture just the section you need with Area or Element mode.