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CLUSTER SCREENSHOTS-TEXT-CHARACTER · 4 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2023-01-22

Screenshot OCR text extraction tools

This cluster consists of personal and desktop utilities that capture or index screenshots and apply optical character recognition to extract text, with one member also enabling search and grounded answers with source images and another integrating extracted text into a shell environment. The cluster's dated history before the index start is too thin to read a shape from — only 3 dated entries exist, so it predates the index or its members are largely undated. Traction leaders by activity signal are screenshotReader, noctalia-plugin-screenshot-ocr, and textshot, each with 0 stars.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

JAN 2023: 1APR 2026: 1JUL 2026: 1SEP 2026: 1
JAN 2023SEP 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 1 hand-coded · 3 unlabelled

Operator · 1 hobby · 3 open source

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 4 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01Pinshot0★1 mo—hand-codedhobbyDesktop screenshot tool that pins screenshots on top of windows, with offline OCR text extraction, translation, and annotation features.
  2. 02noctalia-plugin-screenshot-ocr0★3 moliveopen sourceAdds optical character recognition to screenshots, extracting text for use within a shell environment.
  3. 03textshot0★3 yrabandonedliveopen sourceUtility that extracts text from screenshots using optical character recognition.
  4. 04penguinsnap0★6 mostaleliveopen sourceLinux desktop tool that captures screenshots and uses OCR to extract text from the captured images.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.