Windows 10 search within images

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Just like Windows 10 will search file content like pdfs etc. is there a way to get it to OCR and search within images?
Especially I have a lot of screenshots etc in a folder of websites or other text and they are stored as jpeg files. Is there a way to get windows to search those?
Alternatively, any other tools or plugins that would accomplish this on Windows or could add metadata to the images so that the native windows indexer could still search them out?

Dan.T · Answer

I'm not sure if Windows can do it but Google Photos will OCR images for you automatically. If you upload them there you can then search on specific text or phrases and pull up those photos

Kaspars Purens · Answer

One of the solutions I see is if you parse the image on making the screenshot, saving the results on local database or in a text file next to the image with the same name. That way you could query your screenshots for text

Answered by Kaspars Purens on February 14, 2021

Windows 10 search within images

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