Show HN: mac-screen-search: CLI find, highlight, redact text on screen, in files

2 points by jftuga 9 days ago · 0 comments · 1 min read

mac-screen-search captures your screen (or takes a glob of existing image files), OCRs the text, and draws colored boxes around every match. Use the `-r` flag to have it fill those boxes solid for redaction or `-b` to blur.

It also handles batch processing (overwrites in-place, preserves mtime), enhanced OCR for degraded images (Zoom calls, transparent terminals) with `-e` flag, and Levenshtein fuzzy matching to catch OCR misreads with the `-d N` flag.

It includes: screenshot and file-glob modes, exact/fuzzy whole-word matching, redact/blur/outline annotation, multi-monitor, multi-term search, list mode, and output control.

Free, open source, written in Swift. Single file, no deps beyond macOS itself.

    brew install jftuga/tap/mac-screen-search

Disclaimer: Vibe coded with Claude Opus 4.6.

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