On: Show HN: AI search for every photo and every frame of video on macOS

[allenleee]

Hey author here! :) Great point.

You're totally right. Apple Vision is generally way faster and more accurate on Apple Silicon. Pure Mac-only, I'd use it. (also smaller)

Main reason I went Tesseract: I want SCM to stay portable easily. It's ARM Mac for now, but the inference layer is all JS end-to-end — Transformers.js + ONNX for CLIP/SigLIP + Whisper, Tesseract.js WASM for OCR, all in plain Node workers.

A bit of background: I'm actually an iOS/macOS dev and I really love SwiftUI and AppKit — I just wanted v1 to stay portable by construction. Exploring a native Swift + MLX v2 track separately for speed.

[novok → allenleee]

If you look at the apple photos db you'll see that there is a bunch of cached pre-analysis you can leverage for items in apple photos.

[allenleee → novok]

thanks for this! will do some research on it