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Adding Google Search by Image Functionality

Open MagedMYoussef opened this issue 5 years ago • 9 comments

It will be great feature to add "search by image" feature using Google reverse image search.

In many cases I find myself taking screenshots from various places (locally and online) and then upload them to Google image search.

It would be nicer to have a Google search button to instantly search for the selected screenshot instead of saving and re-uploading.

Thanks for your awesome project :+1:

MagedMYoussef avatar Aug 04 '18 14:08 MagedMYoussef

I don't think that feature belongs to a screenshot tool.

AlfredoRamos avatar Aug 08 '18 19:08 AlfredoRamos

It already exists in Lightshot (a screenshot tool for Windows), and I use it a lot for specific use-cases. So, I thought maybe other people have the same case.

MagedMYoussef avatar Aug 20 '18 09:08 MagedMYoussef

for anyone still interested in such feature. you can check out my fork

Phalelashvili avatar Jun 12 '20 19:06 Phalelashvili

I would love to see this functionality merged. It is really useful for OSINT and simple information verification.

yasiupl avatar Nov 06 '20 22:11 yasiupl

I would love to see this functionality merged. It is really useful for OSINT and simple information verification.

my fork is way behind master. if they consider this feature worthy enough to be merged, I'll consider updating it

Phalelashvili avatar Nov 07 '20 09:11 Phalelashvili

This doesn't really fit into flameshot proper which is a screenshot and annotation tool. I think its best to split this into a different program.

borgmanJeremy avatar Nov 07 '20 16:11 borgmanJeremy

Only feature I'm missing with Flameshot

OrthodoxCaveDweller avatar Nov 04 '21 19:11 OrthodoxCaveDweller

I have re-implemented this feature on latest flameshot version. I'll try to keep it up to date with upstream. reverse search has its own button, but can also be used after uploading to imgur and choosing reverse search option in post upload dialog

Phalelashvili avatar Nov 04 '21 23:11 Phalelashvili

I 100% agree with @borgmanJeremy. But considering that we are getting this every now and then, and considering that we have the plan to have a plugin system, I reopen this issue but under plugin label just to keep the idea in the list. This way when the plugin system is implemented, someone can create a plugin for it.

Just to clarify, this will not be a flameshot native feature.

mmahmoudian avatar Aug 28 '22 06:08 mmahmoudian