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Re:Microsoft Will Switch Off Recall by Default After Securit... by Angelore on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @01:20PM (#40660605)
>OCR of every single image on my computer so I can copy and paste text from anything, all running locally on the NPU on my M1 chip

This functionality is baked into Windows since 10. But for some reason you need a third party program to expose it.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/uwp/api/windows.media.ocr?...

https://github.com/TheJoeFin/Text-Grab

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Re:Microsoft Will Switch Off Recall by Default After Securit... by MollyRealized on Saturday June 15, 2024 @07:11PM (#40693378)
Check out Microsoft PowerToys' TextExtractor.
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