It appears to be as simple as tesseract <infile><outfile>. Possibly could even pipe (or tee) the screenshot straight into that and save both an image and a text file in a single command line.
its a cronjob that runs each minute (*/1) in any hour, any day, any month, on any weekday, gnome-screenshot obviously takes a screenshot and outputs it to the given file path and filename, where the filename is written as the current date as string and .png as format
What does that command do?
Takes a screenshot every minute and saves it
Can you search the screenshots with OCR though? That’s Recall’s main selling point
You can start by running
sudo apt install tesseract-ocrand then reading its docs.Fulfills the AI quota 👍
It appears to be as simple as
tesseract <infile> <outfile>. Possibly could even pipe (or tee) the screenshot straight into that and save both an image and a text file in a single command line.So something like this should do the trick:
Skip the database, just use
grepto search that directory if you need to find anything. Voilà, homemade Recall.You can use textract to make it even simpler (still uses tesseract under the hood though).
I can’t imagine it’d be that hard to write some code that does that using an existing AI model.
You’re probably right.
Llava and Bakllava are two Ollama models than can not only extract text but also describe what’s happening on screen.
Using
tesseract-ocr, as the other guy suggested, is probably simpler and less resource intensive though.This is a shitpost and not a real suggestion.
its a cronjob that runs each minute (*/1) in any hour, any day, any month, on any weekday, gnome-screenshot obviously takes a screenshot and outputs it to the given file path and filename, where the filename is written as the current date as string and .png as format