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I hear people talking about a web based version which would be cool, I have so many photos I've taken of my drivers license, license plate, random addresses, contacts,…",{"id":56,"by":57,"text":58},"21147256","escapologybb","Oh man, I really wish this was available on my Mac and not just mobile. I'm quadriplegic and cannot hold my camera to take pictures, but if I could get my PA to snap pictures…",{"value":60,"source":49,"evidence":61},"iOS users with many screenshots and photos",[62,66],{"id":63,"by":64,"text":65},"21147133","pgt","I am buying this IMMEDIATELY. Do I need to go through each photo to have them indexed, or does it OCR in bulk based on wherever it detects text? Feature request: can it also add…",{"id":52,"by":53,"text":54},{"value":68,"source":69,"evidence":70},"$4.99 upfront","commenter",[71],{"id":72,"by":73,"text":74},"21143324","adg29","$4.99 upfront to try the app, which has a rating of 3.9\u002F5 Tempted to try it but think the use cases I have for OCR are covered by Google Photos. Perhaps if Memos offered a…",[76],{"value":77,"source":69,"evidence":78},"Apple Vision framework for OCR",[79],{"id":80,"by":81,"text":82},"21147582","kemayo","Apps like this are an interesting outgrowth of Apple's recent-ish API improvements. It's (fairly) easy on iOS to do bulk on-device OCR now, because the Vision framework[1]…","paid","launched","unknown",{"praise":87,"objections":106,"requests":145,"questions":165,"alternatives":177},[88,95,99],{"value":89,"source":69,"evidence":90},"Privacy: all processing on device, no image transmission",[91],{"id":92,"by":93,"text":94},"21143879","rkagerer","Love your Privacy Policy: → Memos does not transmit any images or associated metadata. → All processing is done on your device",{"value":96,"source":69,"evidence":97},"Bookmarking and finding info in old photos is useful",[98],{"id":52,"by":53,"text":54},{"value":100,"source":69,"evidence":101},"Indexing fast after recent updates",[102],{"id":103,"by":104,"text":105},"21151223","kevingrahl","Got a promo code and the indexing was super fast.",[107,115,126,133],{"value":108,"source":69,"evidence":109},"Paid upfront with no free tier; freemium refused",[110,111],{"id":72,"by":73,"text":74},{"id":112,"by":113,"text":114},"21145146","OJFord","And aren't 'show HN's supposed to have an easy free way for people to give it a go? I don't think commenting 'email me at \u003C> for a promo code' counts, link goes to `\u002Fhn`, at the…",{"value":116,"source":69,"evidence":117},"Closed source; privacy claims need trust",[118,122],{"id":119,"by":120,"text":121},"21145046","VvR-Ox","I don't want to be an ass but: We've been told that too many times. If it's not open source I won't trust my private images to an app. Great idea though!",{"id":123,"by":124,"text":125},"21145958","ikurei","How are you gonna ensure the binary uploaded to the app store has the exact same code that is on the public repo? OSS is not the solution. The only solution is that your OS…",{"value":127,"source":69,"evidence":128},"Slow indexing and low app rating",[129],{"id":130,"by":131,"text":132},"21144065","pacomerh","Many of the reviewers claim its super slow at indexing, I wonder if its still true for the newest version",{"value":134,"source":69,"evidence":135},"Onboarding UI confusing (checkboxes, iCloud prompt)",[136,139,142],{"id":137,"by":64,"text":138},"21147221","OK, I bought it. Some UI feedback. I got stuck at the \"Select Photos\" screen. I pressed Next and nothing happens, so I assumed it had crashed or was processing with no user…",{"id":140,"by":64,"text":141},"21147233","Argh, additionally you can only select one at a time of \"All Photos\", \"Screenshots\" and \"None\". Don't use checkboxes for this - this is what radio fields are for. Better yet,…",{"id":143,"by":64,"text":144},"21147257","Now it's asking me about iCloud Photos. I don't know, man. Just start indexing, then tell me how much data it will use to process the cloud stuff later. Now I have anxiety about…",[146,157,161],{"value":147,"source":69,"evidence":148},"Mac version",[149,153,154],{"id":150,"by":151,"text":152},"21142849","denkmoon","This is really cool, but is it really only for iOS? I have about 6 years worth of screenshot that I would love to be able to text search, but they are files on a Linux box rather…",{"id":56,"by":57,"text":58},{"id":155,"by":64,"text":156},"21155553","It would be cool if Memos could do the indexing on my Macbook and beam it to my iPhone via WiFi (no cloud plz)",{"value":158,"source":69,"evidence":159},"Web version",[160],{"id":52,"by":53,"text":54},{"value":162,"source":69,"evidence":163},"Object and tag search",[164],{"id":63,"by":64,"text":65},[166,173],{"value":167,"source":69,"evidence":168},"Does it work on handwritten notes?",[169],{"id":170,"by":171,"text":172},"21143139","jszymborski","Will this work for handwritten notes? I was just today taking a photos of my notes with the hope of one day OCR'ing it.",{"value":174,"source":69,"evidence":175},"Is indexing done in bulk?",[176],{"id":63,"by":64,"text":65},[178,185,192],{"value":179,"source":69,"evidence":180},"Google Photos text search",[181],{"id":182,"by":183,"text":184},"21142958","ftufek","You could try Google Photos, it can now search text in images: https:\u002F\u002F9to5google.com\u002F2019\u002F08\u002F22\u002Fgoogle-photos-text-search\u002F. Disclaimer: I work at Google, though not on this…",{"value":186,"source":69,"evidence":187},"Keep It",[188],{"id":189,"by":190,"text":191},"21144319","Terretta","Keep It has OCR and search for screenshots, etc., “but” also gets them out of your photos. https:\u002F\u002Freinventedsoftware.com\u002Fkeepit\u002F",{"value":193,"source":69,"evidence":194},"Prizmo, Screenotate, OneNote, Evernote",[195],{"id":196,"by":197,"text":198},"21148436","seltzered_","There’s prizmo, screenotate, onenote, Evernote...",{"comments":200,"answered":37,"key":201},4,[202,205,208],{"id":203,"text":204},"21143430","A freemium model is exactly what we wanted to avoid :-) I am confident that the App Store rating does not reflect the current quality of the app. Shoot us an email…",{"id":206,"text":207},"21144122","We’ve sped up processing by an order of magnitude over the last few updates.",{"id":209,"text":210},"21143446","We’re currently testing a Mac version - for now it’s iOS only.",{"commenters":212,"max_depth":213,"maker_replies":200,"first_comment_mins":214,"lifespan_hours":215},33,7,457,43,[217,219,221,223,227,231,234,237,238,241,244,247,251,253,256,259,261,263,265,267,269,271,274,276,278,279,283,284,286,288,290,291,295,299,301,304,305,307,309,310,311,312,314,315,316,320,322],[80,32,38,218,81,32],"project\u002Fneutral\u002Fidea",[92,40,30,220,93,32],"project\u002Fpositive\u002Fprivacy",[119,40,40,222,120,32],"project\u002Fcritical\u002Fprivacy",[224,40,38,225,226,32],"21145224","project\u002Fneutral\u002Fprivacy","sdan",[228,40,32,229,230,32],"21145762","commenter\u002Fneutral\u002Fprivacy","Crinus",[232,40,32,229,233,32],"21147030","OzzyB",[235,40,32,229,236,32],"21157418","cynix",[123,40,32,229,124,32],[239,40,32,229,240,32],"21146063","jaster",[242,40,32,229,243,32],"21146370","jbit",[245,40,32,229,246,32],"21146655","vagab0nd",[248,40,32,249,250,32],"21147143","commenter\u002Fneutral\u002Fnone","severine",[252,40,32,229,246,32],"21147936",[254,40,32,229,255,32],"21152117","panpanna",[257,40,32,229,258,32],"21147616","jimkleiber",[260,40,32,229,255,32],"21152142",[262,40,32,229,258,32],"21153689",[264,40,32,229,255,32],"21156208",[266,40,32,229,120,32],"21152538",[72,37,40,268,73,32],"project\u002Fcritical\u002Fpricing",[203,37,32,270,11,40],"maker\u002Fneutral\u002Fnone",[272,37,38,270,273,32],"21144468","jacobkg",[130,37,40,275,131,32],"project\u002Fcritical\u002Fperformance",[206,37,32,277,11,40],"project\u002Fpositive\u002Fperformance",[103,37,30,277,104,32],[280,37,32,281,282,32],"21145132","commenter\u002Fneutral\u002Fpricing","mstade",[112,37,40,268,113,32],[285,37,40,268,226,32],"21145235",[189,38,40,287,190,32],"project\u002Fcritical\u002Fidea",[150,200,38,289,151,32],"project\u002Fneutral\u002Fnone",[182,200,40,287,183,32],[292,200,32,293,294,32],"21143064","other\u002Fneutral\u002Fnone","crispinb",[296,200,32,297,298,32],"21143109","other\u002Fneutral\u002Fprivacy","big_chungus",[300,200,32,293,151,32],"21143752",[302,200,32,293,303,32],"21144260","greggman2",[209,200,32,270,11,40],[63,30,30,306,64,32],"project\u002Fpositive\u002Fnone",[137,30,40,308,64,32],"project\u002Fcritical\u002Fdesign",[140,30,40,308,64,32],[143,30,40,308,64,32],[155,30,38,218,64,32],[52,31,30,313,53,32],"project\u002Fpositive\u002Fidea",[56,213,30,313,57,32],[196,213,40,287,197,32],[317,318,32,297,319,32],"21146384",8,"rick_e",[170,321,38,289,171,32],9,[323,321,32,270,11,40],"21143427",[],[326,331,336,340,345,350],{"id":327,"name":328,"points":329,"category":330},"21101918","Bot Land",444,"games",{"id":332,"name":333,"points":334,"category":335},"21134903","Ledonardo",442,"creative",{"id":337,"name":338,"points":339,"category":330},"21136364","Astro Golf",232,{"id":341,"name":342,"points":343,"category":344},"21106611","Ieddit",220,"consumer_social",{"id":346,"name":347,"points":348,"category":349},"21110425","Aristotl",173,"learning_science",{"id":351,"name":352,"points":353,"category":349},"21106202","Ansible Crash Course",160,10,false,"v2",{"id":358,"name":5,"line":6,"ai":355,"cat":20,"year":13,"points":14,"comments":15,"rec":27,"s":359,"top":18,"kw":360,"maker":11,"domain":10,"tier":19,"attempts":32,"strip":361,"url":9,"mix":362,"praise":89,"objection":108,"sub":21},21139309,-0.1,[21,24,25,26],"3513000000000000013105111310000511155103",[30,31,32,33],1794036581509]