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CLUSTER TEXT-CAMERA-DEVICE · 7 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2024-01-22

Camera OCR text extraction apps

This cluster comprises mobile utilities that use the device camera to extract text from images, websites, videos, and QR codes via on-device optical character recognition, typically displaying, copying, or continuously showing recognized text. The dated history is too thin to read a shape from, with only a single dated entry before the index start, so the cluster's pre-index trajectory cannot be characterized. Activity leaders are everyday-lens, screenshot-go, and artinus-ocr, each showing zero stars on the traction signal.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

JAN 2024: 1AUG 2026: 3SEP 2026: 3
JAN 2024SEP 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 ai-built · 2 hand-coded · 4 unlabelled

Operator · 4 hobby · 1 indie · 1 open source · 1 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 7 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01artinus-ocr0★19 days—hand-codedhobbyMobile app that captures camera photos and performs on-device text recognition to display and copy extracted text.
  2. 02KsiazkaKorespondencji0★1 mo—Web app that keeps a correspondence register, recording incoming and outgoing letters and extracting text from photos.
  3. 03screenshot-go0★1 mo—hand-codedhobbyMobile app that lets users search text inside screenshots using on-device OCR with persistent incremental indexing.
  4. 04everyday-lens0★29 days—ai-builthobbyWeb app that identifies everyday objects from photos, extracts and explains text, labels, and usage instructions in plain language.
  5. 05ocr-app0★2 mo—hobbyA mobile app that scans live camera input and continuously displays recognized text using on-device optical character recognition technology.
  6. 06Frog0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceApp that extracts text from photographed images, websites, videos, and QR codes using the device camera.
  7. 07Frog0★unknownliveindieUtility app that extracts text from images, websites, videos, and QR codes captured through a camera or screen.

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