Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Show HN: Offline text extractor from screenshots in macOS

news.ycombinator.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

41–45 of 45 posts

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

#41

Post by RandallBrown »

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…

It's been awhile since I've used it, but Snagit does a lot of what you want. Not free though.

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

#42

Post by asmosoinio »

bigfudge wrote: post #16

This doesn't work for me... no screenshots are imported, and no new ones appear (running latest Catalina)

Same problem here - on Mojave 10.14.6

I already had a custom location for screen shots and selected that as Import folder in VisionShot

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

#43

Post by blntechie »

Waterluvian wrote: post #36
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.

Dropbox app does this and it is a very useful for some use cases.

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

#44

Post by contingencies »

JadeNB wrote: post #19
contingencies wrote: post #7

OK so there are a few use cases here. (1) Finding something in a sea of timestamps. (2) Storing not to Desktop (which always gets cluttered). (3) Searchability when you want something. It seems like you have a hyper-focused solution to 1-2-3 which only allows you to solve screenshots. What about other use cases? Could you not make this more general? (1) Auto-rename files matching a certain pattern when they are creat…

While I'm sympathetic to your generalised (1)–(3), "why not solve this more general problem before solving the specific one?" is usually a great way not solve anything because you're worried you haven't solved the perfect thing. It's almost always easier to make a working solution more general than it is to create a working but specific solution in the first place.

Yes. However, in the context of sharing something in this sort of community, one would assume breadth of application is a reasonable scope for discussion.

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

#45

Post by all_usernames »

heinrichhartman wrote: post #9

Very nice! I found more and more of my workflows getting screenshot driven. It's fast, reliable and accurate. Often-times, I don't care that much about the added overhead of pngs vs text. E.g. I found the only viable way to export my fb timeline (including pictures and comments), when I left, was to screenshot the entire thing. ~500 images. Looking forward to having those indexed! Also really like the software delive…

Just out of curiosity, why did you want to archive your FB timeline?
Post reply on HN