kouhxp/textsnap

Snap any image, screenshot, or webpage into plaintext. No GPU. No cloud. One command.

19 best points · 34 comments · 7 Hacker News posts · 198 GitHub stars · View on GitHub

Hacker News discussions

• Show HN: Local-first fast CPU image to text for screenshots, PDFs, webpages (19 points, 17 comments, by mrkn1, 2026-06-05)
• Show HN: CPU-only fast OCR for screenshots, images, PDFs, webpages (9 points, 8 comments, by mrkn1, 2026-05-31)
• Show HN: CPU-only fast OCR for screenshots, images, PDFs, webpages (4 points, 9 comments, by mrkn1, 2026-05-24)
• Show HN: Local CPU OCR for images, PDFs, webpages (3 points, 0 comments, by mrkn1, 2026-05-29)
• Show HN: Textsnap – CPU OCR in <1 seconds/page, with VLM fallback for hard pages (2 points, 0 comments, by mrkn1, 2026-09-29)
• Show HN: Textsnap – CPU OCR in <1 seconds/page, with VLM fallback (2 points, 0 comments, by mrkn1, 2026-09-30)
• Show HN: Textsnap – CPU OCR in <1 seconds/page (1 points, 0 comments, by mrkn1, 2026-10-01)