SCM brings local AI media search to macOS
What happened
On October 4, Hacker News featured SCM (Screen Memories), a tool that searches photos and video clips locally on a Mac. It takes natural language queries, needs no account and uploads no media, and offers five search modes: files, scenes, OCR, dialogue, and optional LLM question answering. Video results jump to the matching timestamp, and answers can cite extracted dialogue, text and file names. Model weights download once and then run offline, and the tool can watch folders for auto-import and dedupe by content hash. The project is on GitHub at https://github.com/allenv0/SCM.
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- Hacker News front pageShow HN: AI search for every photo and every frame of video on macOS
SCM（Screen Memories）在 Mac 本地搜索照片和视频片段，支持自然语言查询，无需账号，也不上传媒体。它提供文件、场景、OCR、对白及可选 LLMs 问答五种搜索模式，视频结果可跳转至对应时间点，问答可引用已提取的对白、文字和文件名。模型权重下载后可离线使用，支持监控文件夹自动导入与内容哈希去重；项目地址为 https://github.com/allenv0/SCM。
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