ScreenRecall

a script to save all windows of the Linux desktop as screenshots at regular intervals and make them searchable

installation

• clone the repo
• install requirements
• call run.php
• open http://localhost:4000

requirements

sudo apt install php-cli imagemagick wmctrl tesseract-ocr

configure

copy the settings.json.dist into settings.json and configure

{
  "screenshots": "/WHERE/TO/STORE/screenshots",
  "interval": 20,
  "port": 4000,
  "exclude": [
    "Mattermost",
    "Betterbird",
    "Buddy-List",
    "ScreenRecall",
    "Privater Modus",
    "Inkognitortab"
  ]
}

start

php run.php

view and search

open http://localhost:4000