screenpipe-architecture

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On-screen text extraction architecture.

Authorhafley66
Version1.0.0
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What problem does it solve?

Screenpipe's production pattern for robust on-screen text capture, extraction, and indexing across macOS apps using AX + OCR with dedup and SQLite storage.

Core Features & Use Cases

  • AX tree walking to read focused window content and UI chrome where applicable.
  • Apple Vision OCR pipeline to extract text from screen captures with bounding boxes.
  • Hybrid routing between accessibility and OCR to maximize content coverage.
  • Event-driven capture for responsive updates and deduplicated storage in SQLite.
  • FTS5 indexing for fast queries across app name, window, and text content.
  • Use cases: real-time text capture for accessibility tooling, archiving screen content, and automated text extraction for research.

Quick Start

Run the screenpipe-architecture workflow on macOS to start capturing, extracting, and indexing on-screen text.

Dependency Matrix

Required Modules

None required

Components

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