Ask HN: Image snapper tools that also can scrape text from image

1 pointsby aruanavekarover 2 years ago

Anyone got recommendations/suggestions for tools taking screenshots and that can also scrape text from the screenshot

2 comments

pipiscrewover 2 years ago

ABBYY Screenshot Reader - <a href="https://pdf.abbyy.com/screenshot-reader/" rel="nofollow">https://pdf.abbyy.com/screenshot-reader/</a><p>Probably the first company start OCR - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABBYY_FineReader" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABBYY_FineReader</a>

cc101over 2 years ago

The mac will take a snapshot of the screen. Over time it will slowly scrape images and make the results available to Spotlight (mac's search tool). Depending on what you're looking for that might be enough.