xevrion / gyotaku

Search every screenshot you have ever taken by the text inside it. 
 Native on Linux, macOS and Windows, fully offline, and fast on any hardware, with or without a GPU.
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gyotaku reads the text in every screenshot you take and makes it searchable. Press a shortcut, type a few letters of anything you remember seeing, and every matching screenshot appears with the matched words highlighted in place. Open one to copy its text, a selection of lines, or the image itself.
All processing happens locally. gyotaku does not take screenshots itself; it indexes the folders your existing screenshot tool saves to.
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## Highlights
| Metric | Result |
|---|---|
| Search latency, 5,000+ screenshots | 1 to 10 ms per keystroke |
| Screenshot saved to searchable | 0.77 s |
| Window summon time | ~120 ms |
| Frame rate with a GPU | 144 fps (display refresh rate) |
| Memory while idle in the background | 37 MB |
| Disk usage | ~30 MB per 1,000 screenshots |
It also runs without a GPU, using software rendering. All figures were measured on real hardware; see Performance for the full results and methodology.
## Installation
### Linux
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The script downloads the latest release for your machine, verifies its SHA-256 checksum and installs `gyotaku` and `gyotaku-app` to `~/.local/bin`, with an entry in your app launcher. It needs no root access and changes nothing outside your home directory. On a first install it opens gyotaku so you can choose your screenshot folders, then shows how to add a keyboard shortcut for your desktop.
Each release also has a `.deb` for Debian and Ubuntu and an `.rpm` for Fedora and openSUSE, which install to `/usr/bin` through your package manager:
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These don't update on their own yet; install the newer one the same way. More packages are on the way, see packaging.
Release builds run on x86_64 and ARM64 with glibc 2.35 or newer: Ubuntu 22.04, Debian 12, Fedora 36, Linux Mint 21, Pop!_OS 22.04 and later, as well as Kali, Arch Linux and openSUSE Tumbleweed. Anything else can build from source.
### Windows
Windows support is a preview. In PowerShell:
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This installs to `%LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\gyotaku`, adds gyotaku to the Start menu and opens it. Press **Alt+Shift+S** anywhere to open or close the search window. No administrator rights are needed. Windows 10 and 11 on x64 are supported; ARM64 runs the x64 build through emulation. While it waits, gyotaku sits in the notification area: click its icon to open the window, right-click it for settings or to quit. The window never takes a taskbar button, and Alt+F4 just puts it away.
If you prefer a regular installer, download `gyotaku-setup-x86_64.exe` from the latest release and run it. It installs the same files to the same folder, also without administrator rights, and lis