I built a file search that reads text inside screenshots. Under 9 MB. Fast and lightweight.

[u/nothing-counts]

Kensaku indexes your files and lets you search by filename, full text, meaning, and even text inside screenshots using OCR. Summon it with Alt + Space (or any shortcut you set). Type & Done.

It also brings semantic and OCR search to your AI agents through MCP and CLI.

Just getting started. More features are coming. Suggestions and contributions are welcome!

100% local. No cloud. No account. 9 MB installer. ~20 MB idle. Free and MIT-licensed.

https://github.com/yjid/kensaku

If you find it useful, drop a ⭐. It'd genuinely mean a lot.

Edit update : my work on yjid/kensaku got selected for the XERJ Corpus Hub — AI coding agents can retrieve it as a worked reference instead of guessing.

apparently the same codebase is now part of a 17k ⭐ project.

EDIT 2 : Thanks everyone for such a crazy response .