Demystifying ambient screen awareness: exactly how Maple's optical character recognition engine reads active windows, what gets filtered out, and how user privacy is preserved.
Maple only inspects the active window you are currently interacting with. Background apps, minimized windows, and private tabs are strictly ignored.
Understanding the exact technical boundary of what software reads is vital for user trust.
Active-Window vs Full Screen
Unlike blunt screen recording software that captures your entire desktop, Maple queries the OS window manager for the coordinates of the currently active application window only.
Text Extraction Pipeline
Visible text is parsed using on-device OCR. Passwords, payment fields, and apps configured in your Exclusions List are automatically discarded before embeddings are generated.