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A small AppleScript to take a screenshot every 30 seconds for 8 hours. Saves to an Image Sequence in a desktop folder. Great for recording your workday.
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auto-capture.scpt
set dFolder to "~/Desktop/screencapture/"
do shell script ("mkdir -p " & dFolder)
set i to 0
repeat 960 times
do shell script ("screencapture " & dFolder & "frame-" & i & ".png")
delay 30 -- Wait for 30 seconds.
set i to i + 1
end repeat
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Thanks so much. Exactly what I need. Now I just need to find a way to automatically OCR every screenshot

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arn4v commented Jan 22, 2024

@frogstomper Did you find a way? :)

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arn4v commented Jan 22, 2024

I found this project that takes a screenshot every 2 seconds and OCRs them: https://github.com/jasonjmcghee/rem

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@frogstomper Did you find a way? :)

No I didn't. Wow, thanks for forwarding that project. I'll check it out!

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