uknowmyface/locallens

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LocalLens Read screenshots with text-only models using macOS's built-in Vision OCR. The image never leaves your Mac. 中文文档 · Security notes · SECURITY.md Unofficial community project. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by DeepSeek or Apple. "DeepSeek", "Apple", "macOS", and "Vision" are trademarks of their respective owners, used here only to describe compatibility. Overview A DeepSeek Harness (dsh) plugin that extracts text from screen captures, clipboard images, and image files. It calls Apple's Vision framework (the engine behind macOS Live Text) directly: no vision model, no API key, no network. Comparable plugins (visionDS, dsh-vision-router, dsh-vision-sidecar) route the image to a vision model. LocalLens uses no model at all, which removes keys, quotas, and uploads. The cost is that it reads text rather than understanding images, and runs on macOS only. LocalLens Vision-model plugins Recognition System OCR engine Vision model (cloud / hosted / local VLM) Where the image goes Stays on the machine Uploaded or fed to a model Key / signup / quota None Usually required Output Text contained in the image A description of the image Platform macOS only Mostly cross-platfo…

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