Stopped
Not longer searches all my screenshots. Only can manually select. Worked fine for a year then stopped.
This app is ALMOST perfect
for some reason whenever I try to use this app, suddenly it will pop up and say that I need to go into my phone settings and allow the app access to my photos, even though it already has permission. So I have to go back in, do it again, and go back to the app. Sometimes it'll do it repeatedly, so I've kind of given up and I'm looking for a new app that does the same thing now.
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It does what it says, but a few improvements would make it even more useful.
This app is definitely good for searching screenshots. It even managed to find words in screenshots that were somewhat blurry. I just have a few suggestions to the developer that I think will make this app even more useful. My first suggestion is that I wish we could add tags to further sort the images. I think tags would be a very useful feature because many images contain specific topics or themes that are not mentioned in the text within the image. My second suggestion is that I wish we could add notes to each of the photos. Sometimes I want to add my comments to a photo in order to explain it better. I may also wish to add additional info, such as links, in order to further research the details of the photo. If features such as these are added to this app, I think this app will be a lot more helpful in handling screenshots and other types of photos.
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Assad Please Read!
Assad I love your app! Please keep updating it!
Please before you abandon the app add a feature to ‘Show in Photos app’ All Photos view if possible. This would make the app way more useful without much programming on your part. Then users can use Screenshot Hero to search and you can leave the rest to Photos app (such as dates, save image, delete, etc).
Please before you abandon the app add a feature to ‘Show in Photos app’ All Photos view if possible. This would make the app way more useful without much programming on your part. Then users can use Screenshot Hero to search and you can leave the rest to Photos app (such as dates, save image, delete, etc).
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Not really that useful
While the text search is a solid function as its primary feature, what you can do with that sorted gallery is the question. It takes a long time to sort, then sift and load your shots, which is okay, but there's no way to make use of that time spent indexing in any future sort organization action.
So each time you re-do the same work. Not really helpful. Then there's what you can do once you have a narrower field of shots. Nothing but copy one screenshot to paste into a doc. One shot not multiple. There's no combining multiple shots (stitching) or even a collecting option so you can have all similar or contextually related shots on one place for easy access.
And batch culling? Forget it. I thought I could identify shots I could delete (information on them already handled) but forget bulk actions in this app. Index is all you get.
The text search is pretty accurate (who know what it misses?) but I need the functionality of combining shots to use in multiple formats not just copy and paste which can't be used within photo app. Will probably delete as I don't need to find just one screenshot that often.
So each time you re-do the same work. Not really helpful. Then there's what you can do once you have a narrower field of shots. Nothing but copy one screenshot to paste into a doc. One shot not multiple. There's no combining multiple shots (stitching) or even a collecting option so you can have all similar or contextually related shots on one place for easy access.
And batch culling? Forget it. I thought I could identify shots I could delete (information on them already handled) but forget bulk actions in this app. Index is all you get.
The text search is pretty accurate (who know what it misses?) but I need the functionality of combining shots to use in multiple formats not just copy and paste which can't be used within photo app. Will probably delete as I don't need to find just one screenshot that often.
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Needs an About button!
I was recently cleaning up my iPhone and found this app. I could not figure out what the heck it was doing and almost deleted it before looking for it in the App Store. It seriously needs an “About“ button, even if it just displays the App Store description.
Does the job. Algorithm works perfectly
Does exactly what it advertises. Algorithm appears to be very reliable in finding any text in images.
Could need some UX enhancements in the future, native share sheet, dark mode, more.
But clearly 5 stars as it works very well 👍
Could need some UX enhancements in the future, native share sheet, dark mode, more.
But clearly 5 stars as it works very well 👍
Incredible!!!
I’ve tried them all- google photos, memos, and Orga- screenshot hero is simply the BEST!! It takes a bit longer to initially get your library uploaded but that’s likely due to how amazingly accurate it is. I use this app specifically for searching texts and class notes to put into Anki flashcards- works flawlessly. Thanks to the creator for making this item so accessible. I usually never write reviews and I felt compelled to do so.
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Thanks
Would live to be able to delete photos from the app, or link to the photos app so I can do it there
App is great but doesn’t work
Once app fully parses all photos it just closes after you open it up. Great idea though.
Top notch!
Finally and app I was always waiting for. Works brilliantly as advertised - text searching your pictures, and most importantly in a private way - everything happens on your device, no data leaves to remote servers.
Very useful
Amazing idea MM!
Apple should add this feature system wide
Like previous poster, I found this app through a Hacker News post. It found most of the text in the screenshots. I hope the developer can add an option to copy the text recognized by the OCR.
Ideally Apple should hire this guy and have similar integration system wide.
Ideally Apple should hire this guy and have similar integration system wide.
Really scratches an itch!
Just wish it had the option to copy the text out of a photo.
Works really well—one suggestion!
Saw this on Hacker News and downloaded immediately. It's so simple, and fast too. I think this app would be even better if the extracted text was visible in a column of a view and/or visible/copy-able when you tap an image.
Extremely fast!
Just read an article that talked about how amazing this app is and I found it to be just that.
I have dozens of screenshots on my iPad so tried it out. Almost instantly, any words it scanned and optically character read (OCR) made the photos/screenshots come up immediately.
It didn’t OCR some of the words (e.g., a movie poster that had my wife’s uncle in it) but mostly it was able to detect text and make it searchable. I’d say 90% at least.
Great app ... and one I’d pay for too.
I have dozens of screenshots on my iPad so tried it out. Almost instantly, any words it scanned and optically character read (OCR) made the photos/screenshots come up immediately.
It didn’t OCR some of the words (e.g., a movie poster that had my wife’s uncle in it) but mostly it was able to detect text and make it searchable. I’d say 90% at least.
Great app ... and one I’d pay for too.
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