[klous]

I take a lot of screenshots for work doing competitive analysis with Chrome Extension Screenshot Minus, which are saved to Dropbox.

Now, what problem do I actually have that I have sought out a solution for but couldn't find? The abilty to automatically search these screenshots' content. eg. I know I took a screen of a certain site and want to find it quickly, without estimating when it was captured and previewing images around that date and hope to find it.

Accomplish this by either OCR on the images and index the content to make is searchable or save the HTML of the page with the image and index that.

I've looked into OneNote, Evernote and although they have some OCR it's meant for taking pictures of documents and doesn't kill my pain.

Put that in a Chrome extension and service I would gladly pay for that since it solves a real pain that costs me time and had too much friction.

[tluyben2]

Saving the HTML or the stripped content with the image wouldn't be much of a problem to make right? Why OCR when the screenshot is of a website?

[klous]

I sometimes screenshot an entire w full page, sometimes just a portion with a manual crop with Screenshot Minus extemsion. I only want to index the part I capture and search the content within.

[tluyben2]

Ah that is indeed more complex... Can't you tie some services together that do that? If you are the only user it can't be expensive. If no-one already did that? Would actually be interesting to try. There are OCR cloud services ; just no clue how solid they are ; anyone tried here?

[wastedhours]

Saving the HTML would be really useful, the OCR bit would also come in handy for the aforementioned cropped content use case, but also for dynamically loaded content?

[drikerf]

That's great insight and advice! Thank you :)!