Index and Search Screenshot in macOS Finder via OCR

ocr_screenshot_index.sh

#!/bin/bash
set -e

for f in "$@"
do

contents=$(/usr/local/bin/tesseract -c language_model_penalty_non_dict_word=0.8 --tessdata-dir /usr/local/share/ "$f" stdout -l eng | /usr/local/bin/xml esc)

hex=$((cat <<EOF
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<string>$contents</string>
</plist>
EOF
) | plutil -convert binary1 - -o - | xxd -p | tr -d '\n')

xattr -w -x com.apple.metadata:kMDItemFinderComment "$hex" "$f"
mdimport "$f"

done

• Create a new Automator Task
• Folder Action is "Search Files where Name Contains "Screenshot"

Credits: someone somewhere on Github posted this script first.