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

#12

Post by riter »

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 initially but would remember whether it was chrome or whats app

- Would be great to classify and extract conversations

- Would be great to group same app SS within same time period (last hr) into the same folder

- Support video screen cap though I do this less

- Save the URL of SS if in browser

- JPEG compression

Its funny because this is an activity most people in the information work space do almost certainly weekly and there has been no innovation on this. You have plenty of room to 10x the user experience here and make a must-have app. Good luck and pls share v2 on HN!

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

#14

Post by paulschreiber »

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.

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

#15

Post by toomuchtodo »

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.

If the CLI is more your thing: https://github.com/althonos/InstaLooter

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

#17

Post by madeofpalk »

hgo wrote: post #11

For moving screenshots to another location than the desktop, this setting works on macOS 10.14.6 defaults write com.apple.screencapture location ~/Downloads/

As of a few years ago, you can change this in the cmd + shift + 5 screenshot tool, and it'll persist to the other screenshot shortcuts https://i.imgur.com/tsAmsFe.png

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

#18

Post by betageek »

bigfudge wrote: post #16

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

+1, tried a few things and just get '0 screenshots imported' all the time, looked in Console and couldn't see anything obvious.

Also please add some kind of support contact method as the only link to you in the app is a Twitter account with direct messages locked.

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

#19

Post by JadeNB »

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.
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