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Comment by iaskwhy | Hacker News Reader

Google's Screen Capture[0]? I never used AwesomeScreenshot so I'm not sure they are that similar.

[0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/screen-capture-by-...

"Save to Google Drive" will create screenshots when applied on common websites. I use this now instead of bookmarking, as the screenshots are OCRed by Google Drive, giving me a searchable archive of interesting sites!

Heh, so you take a text format, make a picture out of it and let google OCR back it to text? Are you sure you don't just want to save the HTML and resources (i.e. ctrl-s)?

A page nowadays is easily composed out of hundreds of different files, several MB in size. A jpg is small, easy to store and share. I'd go as far that the OCR of a screenshot gives me a ways better search base than the source code, with all its formatting, meta-tags, variable-names etc.

Unfortunately that's half broken since months (years?). It's not possible to take full page screenshots, and the option panel creates error messages all the time. There is a fork out there, unfortunately it's not in the Chrome Web Store yet. Maybe it will if it gets some love from HN:

https://github.com/chrisvanpatten/chrome-screen-capture

I made a simple open source alternative a couple years ago after seeing that nothing in the webstore could accurately take full page screenshots:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/full-page-screen-c...

https://github.com/mrcoles/full-page-screen-capture-chrome-e...

hmmm..i been using lightshot..

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