Show HN: YouTube video content extractor

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Scan.video is a Youtube video content extractor (early prototype). Looking for your feedback.

http://scan.video

Thanks for trying. F

This is actually really cool, but it took a while for me to figure out what exactly it does. Perhaps you could emphasize the fact that it allows you to preform a text search on the text of the video?

Thanks for your comment. First time use is key so I'll definitely work on that! I put up an "about" page but it's not easily accessible (bottom of the page).

What are some use cases for this?

"Search" is the use case.

For now it's just a Proof Of Concept that looks like a video search engine. But here is a list of use cases we could think of:

A Social Platform to share a specific scene from a video (not the whole video like you see on FB, etc). A video bookmark tool to bookmark your favorite lines in a movie. Or even your favorite scene. A content manager for Youtubers to help their followers browsing their content faster. A media tool to quickly collect a bunch of video content for a given news. Think of it as a Twitter for video content.

Search engines are looking for text and meta data only. We focus on digital content, which requires some extra steps...

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