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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. (github.com)
submitted 7 months ago by salarua@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world
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this rootless Python script rips Windows Recall's screenshots and SQLite database of OCRed text and allows you to search them.

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[–] 4am@lemm.ee 25 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Hey, yeah… why aren’t they just tapping the font rendering DLL?

…are they tapping the front rendering dll??

[–] HelloHotel@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

My guess is that they looked at their screen reader API, saw that it wasnt 100% of the text on screen and said fuck it! Were using OCR!