Indexing is slow ... – Memos - Search Screenshots Review

I’m hoping this will benefit from recently announced iOS 13 background tasks... When I start the app it shows the number of photos it’s “scanned” but the countdown for total photos resets. With 105,000+ photos it’s hard to tell if this will ever finish. More than a week later I’ve gotten close to 25% ... [update after 1.5.1] Now when I open app the progress shows what looks like an accurate count of total images scanned. But the blue highlight below that is gone. A few hours later and the count of items with text went from 944 to 949 ... but the total number scanned hasn’t changed ... An app like this would greatly benefit from a stats screen... a chart so 3 metrics over time: Images with text Images scanned Images total (at that point in time) Also, a preference to set whether new images get scanned before the ‘backlog’ ... And information/ preference for whether scanning backlog is chronological order or not. [update after 1.5.2] ... stuck?? The progress doesn’t change, the total count hasn’t changed but the number of images with has gone up. No indication of what percentage of images have been checked or how many more remain. So no results could mean text exists but weeks later the image with text might still be in the queue. [update after 1.6.6] Per the developer, I reinstalled the app ... and I’m on the latest iOS release with an iPhone 11 Pro. The processing is taking about a second per photo with the app open; and no progress when I’m in any other app. So a minimum of 60 hours to go — though the app still hasn’t finished calculating the ETA. But that is if I leave the app open for 2 1/2 days. I keep trying the app because it’s a great idea and frankly should be in iOS and would take no time if processing happened with each photo. But if you’re expecting to search and find a photo of a contract from a few years ago that’s on iCloud .., you won’t ... at least not until the app downloads and parses every image you took. I’m beginning to think this could only work if there was a desktop “sister” app that ran and could sync an index to the phone app. I don’t know if “not found” means “doesn’t exist” & that makes it unusable for what I wanted.
Review by pgp on Memos - Search Screenshots.