Peekaboo implements intelligent visual questioning and answering (VQA) through the following steps:
1. Model configuration::
Support for locally deployed Ollama models (e.g., llava/qwen2-vl) or cloud APIs. in the case of the local model, you need to run the brew install ollama Install the service by ollama pull llava:latest Download the visual model and finally specify the model path in the Peekaboo configuration file.
2. Question and answer process::
Execute commands such as peekaboo capture screen --question 'What is on the screen?' --output result.json, tools will:
① Capture screen images in real time → ② Submit images and questions to the configured AI model → ③ Generate JSON files containing answers (with image references and analysis results)
3. Technical characteristics::
- low latency: Local model processing without web requests
- multimodal understanding: Models can parse complex content such as text, charts, etc.
- Highly scalable: Adapt to different scenarios by replacing the model, such as code analysis can be used to select professional programming model.
This answer comes from the articlePeekaboo: macOS screen capture and visual quiz toolThe
