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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 than iOS.


You could try Google Photos, it can now search text in images: https://9to5google.com/2019/08/22/google-photos-text-search/.

Disclaimer: I work at Google, though not on this product.


Google Photos was a great product before Google Drive removed local photo sync. It's still fine for people with an online-first/only workflow (Chromebook users?), but is a sad shadow of its former self for 'traditional' PC users.


I'm amazed at the ai based tagging but it's sooooooo far from actually useful for me. i know it's hard work and I have no clue how to make it better but I need to be able to make much more specific searches like "offices with posters of sailor moon" or "German shepards" or "white tennis shoes". I have 120k photos and a much as I'm amazed at the categorization it almost never actually helps me find the picture I'm looking for.


I used to use google photos, but got creeped away from it after I found it had been building facial profiles of I and the others most frequently in my pictures.


I actually used Google Photos before they screwed around with preventing hotlinking and forcing their frame.


We’re currently testing a Mac version - for now it’s iOS only.




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