Show HN: I built a CLI to search screenshots by what's in them

  • Posted 9 hours ago by saleban1031
  • 2 points
https://github.com/memvid/screenshot-memory
I have 5000+ screenshots and can never find anything. Built a tool to fix that.

ssm find "that stripe error" → finds the screenshot with the Stripe error message

It uses OCR to extract text and a local vision model (Ollama) to describe photos. Everything runs locally, no API keys.

The search is semantic so "connection failed" finds "network error" too.

What surprised me: indexing is the slow part (~2s per image for OCR). Search is basically instant.

Code: https://github.com/memvid/screenshot-memory

Would love feedback on the CLI UX.

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