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Noah

Screenie 2 - Search the text inside your screenshots

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Screenie 2 is a new type of screenshot manager designed specifically for macOS Catalina. With Screenie, you can drag screenshots from your menubar, preview and drag images from the Screenie Panel, and even search the text inside your screenshots!

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Noah
Maker
Hi Product Hunt! Back in 2016 we posted the first version of Screenie for the community here and we were beyond excited to see all the positive feedback and to learn from the constructive criticism. Now it's 2020 🤯and we're ready to share something new. Screenie 2 is a completely re-imagined app with a new sleek user interface and major stability and performance improvements. Most importantly though, Screenie 2 is the first app using optical character recognition technology available only in macOS Catalina to enable you to search the text inside your screenshots! Some other great features: - Change the location where macOS saves your screenshots - Bring up the Screenie Panel from a global keyboard shortcut - Option to disable the native macOS screenshot previewer in the bottom right corner - New theme and styling options As a special thank you to the community here we're happy to give all Product Hunt users 50% off when using the discount code GOLDENKITTY at checkout!
Niklas Pivic
@sond813 Just bought it and it looks wonderful! Will look forward to trying out the OCR search. Thanks for the discount! <3
Raghav Sharma
@sond813 Hello Noah, if I'm buying screenie will it last for forever? I mean for future versions? or the current version forever? Or if somehow the screenie got uninstalled will I have to pay again for it?
Noah
Maker
@raghavsharma Yes, it includes free updates and you can download it again anytime from your purchase receipt
Anna Filou
@sond813 Am I missing something, or is the app free to download right now...? I'm confused because if it's free, what's the discount code for? I just downloaded it and waiting for it to index my screenshots in order to try it out! There don't appear to be any in-app purchases though and it didn't mention a trial or anything 😅
Leo Meredith Marcus
@sond813 :privacy policies? Do you collect data and store them, do you read see the screenshots and use them in any way? Does your OCR keep records and save the data somewhere because many screenshot can have bank info or other personal informations. Could you provide detailed info about how you handle all this information?
PR
Bought this - extremely helpful. Congrats! One complaint I have (and maybe it's something I'm missing) is that I can only choose one folder at a time, and that can't be my "MacBook Pro" drive itself as it won't look for anything. In other words, I have images in Documents, Downloads, Desktop, folders within Desktop, and say I choose "Desktop", it won't include images that I have within folders on my desktop - only the ones flat out on the desktop itself. Is there any way around this?
Noah
Maker
@prithsr we’re working on this feature, stay tuned!
Niklas Pivic
@prithsr @sond813 I'm also really looking forward to this! I have subfolders that need to be included in indexing. Can you please tell when this is about to be released into production?
Niklas Pivic
@prithsr @sond813 Hi, Noah! Any ETA for when one will be able to select multiple folders for Screenie to look in?
PR
@niklaspivic666 Doesn't work well for me. I have added around 3-4 folders and though screenie itself shows a bunch of pictures more, the search feature doesn't include all of them.
Niklas Pivic
@prithsr It works for me, actually. I selected a folder that contains subfolders, then went to Advanced > Clear cached data. I also use 'Fast' as method for allowing the app to index my pics, which uses a LOT of CPU at first, but then calms down significantly.
Josh
this will be super useful for all my flight screenshots I take!
Nicolo S
Make this for iOS too :D
Roland Horváth
Amazing! 🔥 Are you using CoreML for the OCR engine? :)
Josh Cohen
Maker
We’re using the Vision framework, the capability was introduced at WWDC last year! Check it out: https://developer.apple.com/vide...
Vlad Korobov
With what lib do you do OCR?
Noah
Maker
@vladkorobov The Vision framework! Text recognition was added last year https://developer.apple.com/docu...
Vjeko Skarica
How did I not know about this earlier... Nice!
Max Krause
Amazing product, so useful !!
Iain Freestone
Looks awesome and very useful
Justin Rockmore
The new UI is soooo much cleaner - great work!
Lee Blecher
This will save me so much time finding specific screenshots I'm looking for - such a useful product!
Svend Court-Payen
Looks pretty cool! Is it multilingual?
Noah
Maker
@svend_court_payen Not yet but if you have a particular language in mind please email us!
Grace Buszko-Clark
I've been using this for work and it saves me so much time as I use screenshots daily
Sylvia Gorajek
Does this allow for instant markers / notes on the screenshot?
Noah
Maker
@sgorajek We don’t have a built in editing feature yet, but you can easily open screenshots in Preview from the Screenie panel and edit there. If there’s another use case that would work better for you let us know!
Vladimir Marchenko
Optical character recognition technology - is a super idea! Now I don`t need to find a text on a picture, he will be found by himself! Good luck, guys
Adrian Thomas
Insta-buy. Far too cheap though!
Steffi
A bit late to the party but yey 🥳 I've been waiting for this update.
Sterling Freeman
I imagine an API for this could have so many novel ML applications, wouldn’t you agree?
Josh Cohen
Maker
@sterling_freeman We definitely agree! Apple already provides this API for developers to use. Can check out the documentation here: https://developer.apple.com/docu...
Kris
Question: There is a lot of bug in there i think. So, after download, the app neither sticks in the dock nor in the menu bar, you have to launch it all the time to use it . Also just out of curiosity I took the settings gear icon off in the screen setting, there is no way to get it back. Also what is the "Drag screenshots any time from your menubar" but there is no icon in the menu bar. Am I missing something?
Noah
Maker
@s_k8 Sorry for the confusion! Screenie is designed to not be in the dock, although we do have a preference to enable that if you choose. You can open preferences at anytime by right clicking the menubar icon, and you can open the Screenie panel by left clicking the icon. The menubar icon looks like the outline of a circle. If you're not seeing it please email us and we'll make sure to get the bug fixed!
Vardan Karapetyan
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