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Kirby64yesterday at 7:27 PM2 repliesview on HN

> I have an older M2 Mac mini that does the OCR and visual description of all my screenshots. Screenshots are stored on my NAS.

Doesn't Apple do this already within it's OS all locally? It certainly does it for OCR and categorization.

EDIT: Also, no reason to use a generic LLM for this. This functionality exists in something like Immich (both OCR and 'context categorization'), and doesn't tie you into the Apple ecosystem either.


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c0nsumeryesterday at 7:40 PM

I personally use Apple Photos for this. It stores the original, plus makes them nicely searchable, so I have a Hazel action that takes screenshots from the desktop (and from my NAS where mobile devices back them up) and imports them.

Works out really well.

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