[Feature Request] OCR search text in images

[lethefrost]

It would be especially helpful when you have a lot of screenshots, diagrams, photo of slides, etc., embedded in documents or as stand alone image files. Text in images may contain a large amount of information. However, it's not very easy to retrieve them in the traditional ways of file management. It would be greatly appreciated if you could consider making them searchable.

[MohamedBassem]

hmmm, OCR is a cool idea indeed. My only concern is finding a good OCR tool that would work with different languages.

[lethefrost]

hmmm, OCR is a cool idea indeed. My only concern is finding a good OCR tool that would work with different languages.

This might be helpful - I am thinking probably we can let each user configure a list of possible languages that would occur in their hoard - which usually are the languages they know, so the list wouldn't be too long (for most people it might be 1-3?). It seems that Tesseract.js supports recognizing multiple languages at the same time when you concatenate the lang codes with +?

[MohamedBassem]

tesseract.js looks cool indeed. We can probably add it to the roadmap at some point

[akshara-tg]

Without OCR (which allows for searching text within images), the hoarding images become somewhat pointless.