Lenscribe
Make images searchable. Keep the text with the file.
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Details
- External ID
- 1272068
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Lenscribe
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 10, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.33
- Tags
- Productivity, Open Source, GitHub
Description
Lenscribe saves extracted text inside your images. Search it with ripgrep (rg), ugrep (ug), The Silver Searcher (ag), grep, ack, or sift, then browse matches with fzf. Free and open source for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
Enrichment
- Niche
- client-side media and compression tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Search & retrieval
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- image search and text extraction for local files
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is a CLI or desktop tool that runs OCR (such as Tesseract or Apple Vision) and writes the resulting text into EXIF/XMP image metadata tags using existing tools like ExifTool.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 254 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #74 of 255 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 344 days after the earliest competitor.
- ProFontFinder · ph · 2026-09-26 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Textracto · hn · 2026-08-05 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- ShotFinder · ph · 2026-09-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Text Scanner: Image to Text · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Outfit Lens · ph · 2026-10-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- EZCropper · ph · 2026-10-01 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Fonk · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- BrowserOCR · ph · 2026-09-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
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