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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 iaskwhy 12y ago

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-google/cpngackimfmofbokmjmljamhdncknpmg https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/screen-capture-by-...

netrus 12y ago
"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!
- simias 12y ago
  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)?
  - netrus 12y ago
    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.
psteinweber 12y ago
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 https://github.com/chrisvanpatten/chrome-screen-capture
- lazylizard 12y ago
  hmmm..i been using lightshot..
- mrcoles 12y ago
  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-capture/fdpohaocaechififmbbbbbknoalclacl https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/full-page-screen-c... https://github.com/mrcoles/full-page-screen-capture-chrome-extension https://github.com/mrcoles/full-page-screen-capture-chrome-e...

by iaskwhy 12y ago

netrus 12y ago

"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!

simias 12y ago
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)?
- netrus 12y ago
  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.

psteinweber 12y ago

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

lazylizard 12y ago
hmmm..i been using lightshot..
mrcoles 12y ago
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-capture/fdpohaocaechififmbbbbbknoalclacl https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/full-page-screen-c... https://github.com/mrcoles/full-page-screen-capture-chrome-extension https://github.com/mrcoles/full-page-screen-capture-chrome-e...