• Aux@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

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

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      6 months 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.