[Feature request] Image text indexing (OCR)

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user123
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[Feature request] Image text indexing (OCR)

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Tesseract OCR is open source and this wouldn't be that hard to implement, similar to how PDF content is being indexed currently.
This would be a very useful addition to this search tool and there isn't any software that can do this - index text in images and allow user to search for it. I know google does OCR on images and index them, but that's about it, I have never been able to found something like this for local files, only maybe some small github scripts that have been abandoned.
void
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Re: [Feature request] Image text indexing (OCR)

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I will consider indexing PDF text with Tesseract OCR.
Possibly as a plugin.

Thank you for the suggestion.
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