Warden - Picture to Text App (Windows)

TLDR: Does what it says on the tin!

Note: this Windows version needs an update, for now please replace the 'easyocr' folder within the program folder with this one: Dropbox

This is an image-to-text scanner and search engine.
Any images or screenshots you have with text in them you will be able to unlock, search and export with this app.

Why does this exist?
We all take a lot of screenshots and archive things.
Especially things that we find very important and may not be up in the cloud forever.

Unfortunately, the text within these images is not easily accessible, and once the pictures go to your hard drive on your home computer they become virtually useless, that is unless you want to scroll hundreds of pictures manually.

You need a way to unlock them, so you can actually make use of them.

If you're a writer with a lot of sources I'd imagine this to be pretty useful, if you're a student or researcher as well.
I sure wish I had the hundreds of screenshots I made of my lectures easily accessible back when I was taking exams.

And that is why I made this, it uses AI to figure out the text within the images, it scans whole directories and it has its own search engine, so you can simply open the images which contain the keywords you need.

The app will have a readme file with instructions on how to use it.
Also, this is a one-man operation, so if you need support just @cheskoo me.

A bit about this app:
1. This is the only app I know of that allows for bulk image-to-text scanning, and it is all offline and local, so it doesn't need an internet connection to function and your data is your own (it only connects to gumroad when running it for the first time to verify it's a legitimate download).

2. It uses an AI to figure out the text within images, therefore it will be faster if you have a graphics card, about 10x faster, which is a big deal when bulk scanning a lot of images.

3. Images don't need to be scanned every time. There is a button in the app called Index, it scans all images in a given directory (ie. a folder), once you index a folder, all images within and within the subfolders are scanned, and are therefore searchable and do not need to be scanned again.

Please Note: This is the Windows version, for the MacOS version go to https://chesko.gumroad.com/l/warden_for_mac