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

1 points by aruanavekar 3 years ago | 2 comments

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

pipiscrew 3 years ago |

ABBYY Screenshot Reader - https://pdf.abbyy.com/screenshot-reader/

Probably the first company start OCR - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABBYY_FineReader

cc101 3 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.