Screenshots Text Searchable / OCR
I desperately want to be able to search the text within screenshots. This would make my life 100000x easier. As I switch between many clients I have to work my way through each screenshot working out what client that bit of time was for etc.
Tim Townsend
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Alex McHugh
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Please consider the privacy implications of this. Note the ruckus that Windows Recall (which implements a similar feature) has faced.
Maybe, if possible rather than reinvent the wheel - it could be possible to hook into Windows Recall for this functionality and let Microsoft take the heat for the privacy and security of this feature.
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AntipodTX
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I had a similar idea - to use OCR as a universal plugin for applications. 4 ex., telegram did not display the name of the interlocutor in the window title before, and all my clients are in telegram. Everything goes through auto-tags, and telegram has to be filtered every month when billing and tagged manually by screenshots. But it writes the name of the one with whom you communicate in a fixed place by fixed coordinates from the upper-left corner of the window. For each application, you can make this configurable and... well, you get the idea...
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John
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This would be THE feature that makes me pay for premium. Maybe this could be accomplished by way of a plugin? I believe there are several APIs and online tools that could be used here.
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David Sopko
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Find an OCR program that will convert the ManicTime screenshots folder into searchable text and record the entries by either the file timestamp or convert the ManicTime label into a timestamp. You could even cross-query this database with the ManicTime database. I agree, having this built into ManicTime would be a wonderful feature.
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marc
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Maybe you find a "JPG to Text" or "PNG to Text" (batch) application that is able to convert a complete folder to text files. By that you could search through the Windows Explorer.