OCR-grab: Flameshot clone that adds OCR
Details
- External ID
- 48843099
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- OCR-grab: Flameshot clone that adds OCR
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- July 9, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 6
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.2873357228195938
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- niche creative and graphics software
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- screenshot tool with ocr extraction
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A desktop screenshot utility with OCR can be assembled in days using standard desktop frameworks (like Qt or Tauri) and off-the-shelf OCR libraries like Tesseract or OS-native OCR APIs.
Discussion
2 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Spectacle, tesseract with pipes/flameshot
Concerns raised: OCR functionality already available in existing tools
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 138 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #102 of 139 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 251 days after the earliest competitor.
- CPU-only fast OCR for screenshots, images, PDFs, webpages · hn · 2026-05-31 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Picture_Capture · github · 2026-09-19 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Simple Screenshot Copy · hn · 2026-08-20 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- We built an OCR server that can process 270 dense images/s on a 5090 · hn · 2026-04-23 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- LumaShot · github · 2026-09-27 · 24 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Flameshot-Portable · github · 2026-09-22 · 62 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- ClipPath · hn · 2026-02-14 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- OCR Buddy: local browser OCR for code, formulas (LaTeX) and tables · hn · 2026-07-07 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.46
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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