GitHub - xaitax/TotalRecall: This tool extracts and displays data from the Recall feature in Windows 11, providing an easy way to access information about your PC's activity snapshots.
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This tool extracts and displays data from the Recall feature in Windows 11, providing an easy way to access information about your PC's activity snapshots. - xaitax/TotalRecall

this rootless Python script rips Windows Recall’s screenshots and SQLite database of OCRed text and allows you to search them.

  • space@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Having worked on a product that actually did this, it’s not as easy as it seems. There are many ways of drawing text on the screen.

    GDI is the most common, which is part of the windows API. But some applications do their own rendering (including browsers).

    Another difficulty, even if you could tap into every draw call, you would also need a way to determine what is visible on the screen and what is covered by something else.