Screen OCR & Search
Screen-text indexing and search through Accessibility and Vision
In current source builds, quick and single-window scans read eligible on-screen windows through Accessibility. Deep scans use Apple's Vision framework to recognize text in window images. The latest results stay in memory for screen-text search.
Bundle builds also store changed text in a local SQLite database with FTS5
full-text search. ocr.search and ocr.history read that
history; the free build doesn't have them.
Screen-text security defines collection rules, exclusions, retention and remote grants for the unshipped source changes. Window capture can include covered content. Indexing does not guarantee private-tab detection or secret removal.
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