Re:Show HN: I made a Mac app to search my images and videos ...
by correa_brian on Thursday May 16, 2024 @12:01AM
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I'm thinking of adding support for text files. Only thing holding me back is that it would make the app much larger.
I'm also considering making the models more a la carte so you can manage which ones your want to use depending on your use case. That way you could use for text, image/video, or both.
Re:Show HN: I made a Mac app to search my images and videos ...
by saagarjha on Thursday May 16, 2024 @09:43AM
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How so? Indexing text seems fairly straightforward?
Re:Show HN: I made a Mac app to search my images and videos ...
by Eisenstein on Thursday May 16, 2024 @09:53AM
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Adding more capability means adding another set of model weights.
Re:Show HN: I made a Mac app to search my images and videos ...
by saagarjha on Thursday May 16, 2024 @10:01AM
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Right but indexing text is, like, you already have the text…
Re:Show HN: I made a Mac app to search my images and videos ...
by correa_brian on Thursday May 16, 2024 @10:22AM
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For the best performance you'd probably want to use something other than CLIP's text encoder, but yeah you already have the text and could index it.
If enough people asked for it, I would consider adding a different embeddings models.
Re:Show HN: I made a Mac app to search my images and videos ...
by correa_brian on Thursday May 16, 2024 @10:23AM
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Exactly
Re:Show HN: I made a Mac app to search my images and videos ...
by stork19 on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @11:12PM
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The search bar in Finder does a decent job searching for text (recursively) in files and PDFs.
Re:Show HN: I made a Mac app to search my images and videos ...
by pps on Thursday May 16, 2024 @05:15AM
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This app focuses on semantic search rather than full-text search, if I understand correctly.
Re:Show HN: I made a Mac app to search my images and videos ...
by correa_brian on Thursday May 16, 2024 @10:19AM
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Correct. No text search, but it's something I'd consider adding if enough people asked for it.
Re:Show HN: I made a Mac app to search my images and videos ...
by mjyoon on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @10:53PM
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Yeah, I'd love an app on Windows that can index text files, images, and pdfs recursively through a directory.
Re:Show HN: I made a Mac app to search my images and videos ...
by correa_brian on Thursday May 16, 2024 @12:01AM
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I'm working on a Windows version! I'll let you know when it's ready.
Re:Show HN: I made a Mac app to search my images and videos ...
by stevenicr on Thursday May 16, 2024 @01:23PM
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Same - I kicked the tired with "Image Scan OCR" from the windows app store I think.. it can do a whole folder (batch process) of pics and extract the text into the sidebar, which is nice.. but it would be nice if the text was exported into a searchable thing and the text was linked to the pic/filename it came from..
Of course I want to search for data in my photo downloads / screenshots folders and be able to pull / easily grab / copy the pic(s) to another folder or upload to a site and then paste the text..
I guess chaining this into notion / obsidian or similar would be beneficial as well.
I'd personally love it if this also indexed text files and pdfs.