Enhanced copy and paste between applications

An executable software product stored on a computer-readable medium containing program instructions for enhanced copying and pasting between applications, the program instructions for:

• capturing information about open applications including a screenshot of each of the open applications shown in a viewable area of the open applications;
• in response to receiving a copy command while the user is interacting with a first application, presenting the screenshots of the other open applications to the user for selection;
• in response to the user selecting one of the screenshots corresponding to a second application, displaying visual content segments from the selected screenshot;
• in response to receiving a user selection of two or more of the visual content segments, copying the selected visual content segments;
• and
• inserting the selected visual content segments into the first application such that original spatial relations between the visual content segments from the second application are maintained when the visual content segments are inserted into the first application.

A system comprising:

• a computer comprising a memory, processor and a display screen;
• at least two open applications executing on the computer, each of the applications displaying respective visual content on the display screen;
• an enhanced capture and insert (ECI) module executing on the computer, the ECI module configured to:
• capture information about the open applications including a screenshot of each of the open applications shown in a viewable area of the open applications;
• in response to receiving a copy command while the user is interacting with a first application, present the screenshots of the other open applications to the user for selection;
• in response to the user selecting one of the screenshots corresponding to a second application, display visual content segments from the selected screenshot;
• in response to receiving a user selection of two or more of the visual content segments, copy the selected visual content segments;
• and
• insert the selected visual content segments into the first application such that original spatial relations between the visual content segments from the second application are maintained when the visual content segments are inserted into the first application.