Good but a few goofy paradigms – Memos - Search Screenshots Review

After letting it chew through 42,000 photos in about an hour and half on an iPhone XS (impressive fast for that much data), it had found my photos. I really had hoped that the tags I added would show in the native photos app, but not terribly surprising it did not. Oh well, I can dream that one day I can edit photo tagging and get a huge lift from text detection. It works with the spotlight search with some asterisks around the functionality expectations when you have too many of a hit. Plus, you have to scroll past all the senseless spotlight noise. Searching works best from the app, and the app is fast and responsive. That said it’d be nice to have thumbnail abilities for quick pan and scanning. It was slightly hit and miss on some text blocks and prone to false positives on tree lines or artificial edges with geometric patterns. There doesn’t seem to be a way to remove a false positive or false positive. Also there isn’t a way to see what the text it has detected without copying it. This would be useful as often the information you’re looking just needs to be more legible, not exported. I expected the UI to present me with the found text on a tap but only could copy/send it. This app is probably super useful for those who snap documents frequently. When I do I use scanner pro, and feed them into 1Password for safer keeping. Don’t get me wrong, this app is well made and nice but just not much of a use case for me. With a few UI tweaks to allow viewing the data more, I’d like this more.
Review by Slickninja on Memos - Search Screenshots.