"avoid capturing" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you want to express that something should not be caught or taken. For example, "We must avoid capturing the rare species of fish found in the lake."
Marine experts try to avoid capturing wild dolphins, instead doing what they can to encourage breeding among the 425 dolphins in captivity in the United States.
Besides visual observations, mist-netting bats and looking for signs (mostly scat and tracks), Olga and Luis are trying a high-tech approach with camera traps (motion-sensitive cameras set out in the forest off the trails - to avoid capturing us, although one trap recorded a herd of herpetologists).
However, to avoid capturing noise instead of true motion, the size of the search area cannot be indefinitely increased.
Privacy: SwiftKey does capture keystroke data but says its system is designed to avoid capturing sensitive data such as credit card numbers and passwords.
Every click, every page view, every interaction that their Javascript snippet can capture (though they avoid capturing things that would be directly detrimental to a user's privacy — they don't record what a user types into a form, for example, just that they typed something).
To avoid capturing other camera rigs in the footage, the crew would either film from the back of the stage, or alternate each night between shooting left-to-right and right-to-left.
He took elaborate measures to avoid capture.
As it might, for instance, to avoid capture by territorial Martians.
The gun-running ship was scuttled to avoid capture and Conrad ran into financial difficulties.
Mullah Safi told Reuters that he changed his location frequently to avoid capture.
As it did, most of the men left to avoid capture by the rebels.
