Show HN: PixFinder – Offline AI+OCR Image Search

Jul 15, 2026 · 7:36 AM UTC ·1 min read · 0 reactions · 0 comments · 27 views

Hi, HN! I’ve made a free Windows tool that lets you search your local images by what's in them, not the filename. It combines AI (SigLip2) search with OCR. I’ve made a free Windows tool that lets you search all your images by what's in them, not the filename. It combines AI (SigLip2) search with OCR. It was made from specific need – quick search my meme collection for reaction meme in a huge collection. But, of course, it could be used for more serious things like searching design assets, photos

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Pixfinder

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Record

Original publisher	Pixfinder
Canonical URL	https://pixfinder.app/
Publication time	Wed, 15 Jul 2026 07:36:35 +0000
Retrieval time	2026-07-15T07:52:39.517Z
Last seen	2026-07-15T07:52:39.517Z
Headline source	Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite)
Excerpt source	publisher body
Excerpt method	First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited.
Summary	None yet
Summary source text	contentText
Citation coverage	No WeSearch summary has been generated for this story yet.
Cluster	5J6Vaj3sFxhl
Cluster logic	Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison.
Ranking reason	Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking.
Publisher visit	Yes — open original
Substitutes article?	No — link-out required for full text

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WeSearch interpretation

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Unknown

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WeSearch handling by dimension

Indexing	May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)?	Allowed
Snippet	May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown?	Allowed
AI summary	May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article?	Limited
Retrieval / RAG	May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation?	Not asserted
Model training	May the content be used to train AI models?	Not asserted
Commercial reuse	May the content be reused commercially?	Not permitted

Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.

Open original publisher → Source rights JSON → Machine-readable provenance → Rights framework → WESEARCH-STORY-PROVENANCE-V1

Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand

OCR Text Search Search any image by the text it contains: invoices, receipts, contracts, business cards, screenshots, whiteboard captures, serial numbers, and scanned documents. PixFinder indexes the text so you retrieve it in seconds. "error code 0x80070" "invoice #4471"

Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Pixfinder.

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