• JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee
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    29 days ago

    Can you search the screenshots with OCR though? That’s Recall’s main selling point

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      29 days ago

      You can start by running sudo apt install tesseract-ocr and then reading its docs.

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        27 days ago

        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:

        gnome-screenshot -f - | tee /Microsoft/yourPrivacy/$(date +%s).png | tesseract - /Microsoft/yourPrivacy/$(date +%s).txt
        

        Skip the database, just use grep to search that directory if you need to find anything. Voilà, homemade Recall.