Show HN: Glimpse – Find any screenshot on Windows by its text or how it looks

Category: devtools

Tags: screenshot-search, ocr, clip, semantic-search, windows, privacy

Score: 7.5/10 (Innovation: 7, Technical: 8, Documentation: 8, Utility: 7)

Glimpse is a Windows desktop tool that indexes screenshots and images locally, allowing users to search by OCR text, visual similarity (CLIP), or semantic meaning (EmbeddingGemma). It combines fast SQLite FTS5, GPU-accelerated embeddings, and hybrid ranking to deliver millisecond-level search across thousands of images, all offline and private.

Target audience: Windows power users, developers, and knowledge workers who manage large screenshot libraries

Repository: https://github.com/cgranier/glimpse · C# · MIT · 1 stars

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