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Introduction

eSearch is a rewritten version of Information-portal (with some additional functions added by the way)

The main purpose is to implement screen search functions such as Hammer Explosion or Xiaomi Portal on Linux (can also be used on win and mac). Of course, it is also a convenient screenshot software .

After several version iterations, eSearch has become more and more functional.

That is, it has screenshot + OCR + search + translation + stickers + screen translation + image search + scrolling screenshot + screen recording

The font is FiraCode, the font can be set in the settings

Download and install

Download from website eSearch

Or open the releases tab on the right, select the package that matches your system and download and install it.

You can use GitHub Proxy to speed up downloads in China

ArchLinux can find and install e-search or e-search-git at AUR

winget winget install esearch

start up

Open eSearch in your launcher and it will appear in the tray.

The default shortcut key is Alt + C (you can also set the shortcut key in settings)

Function

See the documentation for more introduction

screenshot

Frame cropping, color picker, free brush, geometry, mosaic, blur

In addition to adjusting the frame selection through the direction keys, it also supports inputting four arithmetic expressions for adjustment.

Supports immediate execution of operations after customizing frame selection, such as automatic OCR after frame selection

It also supports scrolling screenshots, which can be spliced horizontally, vertically, or in any direction.

Screenshot beautification

Can set background (gradient, picture), rounded corners, shadow for screenshots

Change image resolution for export

Erase objects and patch images

Record screen

Record screen, custom size, camera

Prompts for cursor position and keyboard keystrokes

Can set virtual background

screen map

Wheel zoom, transparency, automatic home position, mouse penetration

Supports enlarging images without changing window size to prevent blocking other content

Filters and transformations (such as mirroring) can be set through CSS

OCR (text recognition)

Out-of-the-box offline OCR (eSearch-OCR), just select the text and press the Enter key

Offline OCR supports paragraph recognition and can also use punctuation-based segmentation algorithms.

It also supports online OCR from Baidu and Youdao.

Text can be edited later, select text on the picture, and synchronize the selection to the editing area for easy proofreading

Supports multiple languages (requires additional download in settings)

Search pictures by pictures

Image search engines from Google, Baidu, and Yandex

Customizable multi-modal large model interface to communicate pictures with AI

translate

Translation can be called after OCR, and word selection translation is supported.

It supports free translation engines, such as Google Translate, etc. You can also set up APIs for other translation engines, such as DeepL, Baidu, etc. You can use AI translation such as ChatGPT, or even customize local AI translation.

Multiple engines can be translated at the same time, choose the best one

Translation results can be saved to local files or saved to memory software such as Anki through the network

screen translation

Generate a map window and replace the image text with translated text

Scheduled translation can be set, suitable for videos, games, etc.

other

QR code recognition

exhibit

1.mp4

Take a screenshot and freely adjust the size of the frame (video is about 2.6MB)

3.mp4

Color picker (video about 1MB)

2.mp4

Ding on the screen, transparency adjustment, homing and mouse operations (video about 1.8MB)

Drawing interface

4.mp4

Home page search and other application editing (video about 1.6MB)

Search and replace on the main page (supports regular expressions)

internationalization

Most buttons use icons to reduce unnecessary translations

+Add new language

Source code running & compiling

git clone https://github.com/xushengfeng/eSearch.git
cd eSearch
npm install
# 编译
npm run dist
# 将在build目录产生安装包和解压的目录

 # 运行
npm run start
# 调试
npm run dev

Specific technical description

test

Tested under ArchLinux, KDE plasma, Xorg

Windows10 and Windows11 tested passed

macOS Catalina tested passed

Q&A

Win7 and Win8 are no longer supported

Electron officially no longer supports Win7 and Win8, so eSearch no longer supports them either.

But you can compile it yourself, see the documentation. Some functions may not be available.

Download dependent libraries

Most Windows will prompt you to download dependent libraries after installation. This is because the screenshot library is required. Click Download and the Microsoft official website will automatically open for download. You may need to restart after the installation is completed.

Gnome does not respond after clicking

Gnome users need to install the appindicator plugin to use the tray.

Mac prompts that the file is damaged

Mac has some restrictions on DMG downloaded from the Internet.

You can search for keywords such as "mac" and "file damage" on the Internet. Different versions of the system have different methods.

Why choose electron

Cross-platform is required. Originally, I wanted to experience the excellent screenshot tool under Windows on Linux, but it is not good to be exclusive to Linux, so I chose cross-platform.
Qt relies on C++, and the learning cost is too high. The desktop version of flutter is not yet mature. I'm better at js development.
Taking screenshots relies on the local system, which is currently not possible with browsers.
In the end, there was only a js cross-platform solution, and I chose the more mature and most used electron.

In the case of other platforms that are not packaged separately as libraries like Arch Linux, the software takes up a lot of storage space, but the addition of dozens of lines of js scripts is not much, but the functions it brings are significantly felt, so I will try my best. Give full play to its potential and achieve a more exquisite UI and richer functions.

Why is the installation package so big?

In addition to the use of Electron, there are also onnx runtime libraries (used to run AI models), offline text recognition models, screen recording portrait recognition models, advanced editing object removal models, FFmpeg (used for screen recording format conversion, Linux has libraries so Not included) etc.

After updating the version, errors appeared that were not there before.

It is usually because the configurations of different versions are incompatible. You can try to restore the default settings in Settings-Advanced-Advanced Settings.

If the problem cannot be solved, please submit an issue

contribute

Please review the contribution guidelines

Development reasons

I always used this useful screenshot software when I was using Windows: Snipaste - Screenshot + Texture, but I switched to Linux and Snipaste does not support it (2019, now supported), so I chose Flameshot, which unfortunately is not intuitive Color picker.

Another opportunity that prompted me to develop eSearch is that I enjoy using instant information search tools like Hammer Explosion or Xiaomi Portal on my mobile phone, but I have not found a similar substitute on my computer.

So I simply developed a "screenshot + OCR + search + sticker" software myself. I first developed Information-portal using python+pyqt, but because I was not familiar with pyqt, I switched to :electron: and developed this software. ?