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Re:Show HN: Local-first fast CPU image to text for screensho... by KetoManx64 on Friday June 05, 2026 @05:37PM (#48418667)
What's the performance like compared to tesseract? I don't see tesseract mentioned anywhere in the readme, which is surprising considering that's the number one tool most go to for Image > text OCR.
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Re:Show HN: Local-first fast CPU image to text for screensho... by mrkn1 on Friday June 05, 2026 @05:48PM (#48418789)
No rigorous eval, and I love Tesseract. Here's the example that motivated me to build textsnap (which is in the github's README), parsed with Tesseract:

https://imgur.com/a/i2eQra8

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Re:Show HN: Local-first fast CPU image to text for screensho... by KetoManx64 on Friday June 05, 2026 @09:54PM (#48420615)
Very noticable difference and the exact issue I run repeatedly with tesseract! Definitely going to try dropping textsnap into my scripts now. Thanks!!
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