[aemreunal]

(Not the author) Maybe they leveraged https://knowyourmeme.com/? But that can't possibly have all the random memes, could it?

[mandatory]

Author here: KnowYourMeme is one of many sites that memes are continually ingested from (any site that has memes I try to ingest regularly) :)

[aemreunal]

Amazing work! Also, thank you for making that feed on the main page, been laughing for a while here :D

[GistNoesis]

Nice IPhone cluster.

Have you tried something based on deep-learning that uses Transformers : https://github.com/roatienza/deep-text-recognition-benchmark (available weights are for tasks that seem similar to OCR so there is a good chance you can use it out of the box). With a good gpu it should process hundreds to thousands image per seconds, so you likely can build your index in less than a day. (Maybe you can even port it to your iphone stack :) )

https://github.com/microsoft/GenerativeImage2Text (You'll probably have to train on your custom dataset that you have constituted)

There are tons of other freely available solutions that you can get with a search for things with keywords like "image to text ocr" "transformers" "visual transformers"...

[taneq]

All hail the memelord!

[spiffytech]

How do you ingest your social circle's in-group memes? Are they reliably posted to meme generator sites?

[counttheforks]

What about copyright?

[code_duck]

OP’s meme site lists where each image comes from. Looking through it I mainly see ifunny and 9gag.

[solarkraft]

Do you crawl telegram channels?