Show HN: Offline text extractor from screenshots in macOS

I've always had an issue with the screenshot flow on my computers. They save to the desktop by default and I can't seem to find screenshots easily when I needed it. They create too much clutter too. So I set out to solve this problem. My major concern was with privacy so I made sure to make it work entirely offline. Here's the final product, let me know what you think. - https://visionshot.app/

Yes, but that's all done locally on your computer. All results are stored in a local config file and used for the search sorting.

Can you dnd screenshots from your app?

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 created in certain directories using a filter (eg. current OCR/image analysis approach). (2) Allow also moving, based on a similar inotify (or similar) API. (3) Make the OCR output an existing search platform (eg. Mac search) pluggable module.

All of these would be possible to achieve cross-platform.

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 delivery here. No way I would have uploaded that content to a SaaS.