Screenshot Hero - iPhone app to make all photos text searchable
Screenshot Hero - iPhone app to make all photos text searchable launched on January 16, 2020 with 429 votes, #24 of 3,486 launches that month and more than 99% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 6 years on.
In plain words
Screenshot Hero is an iPhone app that makes photos text searchable by extracting and indexing text from screenshots and images. Users can capture or upload photos, and the app enables them to search within that text content later. The app is designed for anyone who regularly takes screenshots and needs to find specific information within them. It launched in January 2020.
written from the facts on this page · September 2026
From the sources
Screenshot Hero scans through your screenshots (and other saved photos) and makes then instantly searchable by text in them. I wanted to build a simple utility app that would run OCR through my photos (all 5000+ of them) and make them searchable. I had following constraints for it: I am primarily a web developer and am not a skilled mobile developer. So I attempted this project with three different frameworks and here are my notes: SwiftUI is appealing as it's a React-like framework. I wanted to learn SwiftUI but I struggled with the documentation and even writing a simple grid of photos was challenging. The community is tiny so there aren't that many samples online either. I really wanted…from asadmemon.com
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