light-scraper 📷

An optical character recognition search tool for screenshots from prnt.sc

Installation with NPM

$ npm i -g light-scraper
$ light-scraper

Manual Installation

1. Install Tesseract

For Debian/Ubuntu:

$ apt-get install tesseract-ocr

For Windows:

Download and install from here https://github.com/UB-Mannheim/tesseract/wiki

And make sure to add your installation folder to the Path enviroment variable

Check if Tesseract is installed correctly

$ tesseract -v

2. Clone light-scraper

Clone

$ git clone https://github.com/TasosY2K/light-scraper.git

Or

Download manually and extract

https://github.com/TasosY2K/light-scraper/archive/master.zip

3. Install npm dependencies

$ cd light-scraper-master
$ npm i

4. Done

You should be able to run light-scraper now

$ node ./bin/app.js

Usage

Using light-scraper is pretty simple You just enter the keywords you want and the tool automatically searches random screenshots from prnt.sc for them

If you want to use multiple keywords seperate them with commas e.g.

keyword1, keyword2, keyword3

Images containing these keywords are saved at /photos

Do not fiddle with the /temp directory