[ryanfox]

I built an application for exactly this. It's called A Personal Search Engine, APSE for short.[0]

It OCRs screenshots and stores the text in a search index, so you can query by keyword, date, boolean operators, the whole shebang.

It's all local. It is really useful for me - yesterday it saved me after Firefox wigged out and lost all my tabs. It's in a great place to try out, and I am actively developing it.

[0] https://apse.io

[pezo1919]

That's cool. How can I make sure it does not send my data somewhere? :)

[ryanfox]

Thanks!

You could block it at the firewall - same as you would for any application.

[Jaruzel]

Ahh the paranoia of HN strikes again.

Maybe, stop and think before you ask this. Someone offers up an example of their hard work and you instantly accuse them of being a malware author that steals your data. Nice.

[stragies]

I would rather call it the new-found paranoia most legal departments now have, when IT dept. mentions rolling out new, unknown, non-auditable software in the company from a new vendor that wasn't grand-fathered in (= the legacy windows/cisco deployments). I'm happy about it. I'm just waiting for them to forbid closed-source firmwares/hardware.