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Re: Show HN: Offline text extractor from screenshots in macOS

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Post by blakewatson »

blakewatson wrote: post #25

I don’t know if this was intentional or just a happy accident, but I’m really glad that the menu bar app doesn't disappear automatically on mouse click. It means I can type into the search input with the macOS Accessibility Keyboard without the app closing on me—which is what happens to me in most menu bar apps.

And 3 hours later, VisionShot finished importing my 2,000+ screenshots lol.

Re: Show HN: Offline text extractor from screenshots in macOS

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Post by riter »

paulschreiber wrote: post #14
riter wrote: post #12

Major personal use cases: - SS during conf demo calls - SS competitor products (UI designers, game and product designers to convey flow / features) - SS images that don't allow download on sites (memes, fb, insta) - SS chats to convey conversation (TG, Whatsapp, etc.) Feedback w/o trying app: - Would be great if it could classify app / tag app names if it recognizes the client as I may not remember the content initia…

There are a number of Chrome extensions to facilitate instagram downloading.

Trusting these types of extensions are a gamble nowadays imho. Every month Chrome or infosec researchers are constantly unearthing bad actors that have built but more likely acquired large user base extensions to either inject ads, false ad attribution, or recording user behavioral data for bot fraud heuristics.

I don't disagree thought ... as most aren't privacy conscious

Re: Show HN: Offline text extractor from screenshots in macOS

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Post by seltzered_ »

skadamat wrote: post #20

Visionshot looks neat! It looks like there's a few different apps trying to solve a similar set of problems. Screenotate by Omar Rizwan is the one I used for a while: https://screenotate.com/

Yeah, I've been wanting to find a way to throw money at Omar/screenotate, though havent yet because I already purchased Prizmo (mac only) which has an okay-but-not-perfect screenshot ocr as sortof a side feature: https://creaceed.com/prizmo

Someone recently made dpScreenOCR ( https://danpla.github.io/dpscreenocr/ ) on linux , haven't tried yet

Re: Show HN: Offline text extractor from screenshots in macOS

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Post by whalesalad »

Onyx will let you change the directory where screenshots are saved on Mac (among a lot of other things) https://www.titanium-software.fr/en/onyx.html

My screenshots go into ~/screenshots and my desktop has icons disabled via the same aforementioned tool.

Re: Show HN: Offline text extractor from screenshots in macOS

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Post by Waterluvian »

whalesalad wrote: post #35

Onyx will let you change the directory where screenshots are saved on Mac (among a lot of other things) https://www.titanium-software.fr/en/onyx.html My screenshots go into ~/screenshots and my desktop has icons disabled via the same aforementioned tool.

One of the most powerful modifications I made in university was that every screenshot automatically got uploaded to a service and my clipboard was populated with a link. I used it constantly.

I also used the hotkey Combo to zoom my entire screen in. Any time I did any reading I'd really quickly and fluidly zoom to fill the column into the screen.

Re: Show HN: Offline text extractor from screenshots in macOS

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Post by thedance »

whalesalad wrote: post #35

Onyx will let you change the directory where screenshots are saved on Mac (among a lot of other things) https://www.titanium-software.fr/en/onyx.html My screenshots go into ~/screenshots and my desktop has icons disabled via the same aforementioned tool.

You can change the location to which screenshots are saved as a standard macos feature. Just cmd+shift+5, click Options, click Other Location...

Re: Show HN: Offline text extractor from screenshots in macOS

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Post by siruncledrew »

thedance wrote: post #39
whalesalad wrote: post #35

Onyx will let you change the directory where screenshots are saved on Mac (among a lot of other things) https://www.titanium-software.fr/en/onyx.html My screenshots go into ~/screenshots and my desktop has icons disabled via the same aforementioned tool.

You can change the location to which screenshots are saved as a standard macos feature. Just cmd+shift+5, click Options, click Other Location...

Yea, also right under Options on touchbar screenshot feature.
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