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Draku: Exorcising the Ghosts in Your Camera Roll with Offline Open-Weight AI πŸ¦‡

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This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 4: Ghost in the Machine

What I Built

You are standing at the pharmacy counter. The pharmacist asks for your prescription. You know it is on your phoneβ€”somewhere between 4,000 WhatsApp forwards, food photos, and old boarding passes. You scroll past IMG-20261011-WA0004.jpg , Screenshot_2026-09-14.png , and scan_final_v2.pdf .

Screenshots are the most-used notebook on earth that nobody calls a notebook. The problem is that a screenshot stores pixels , not meaning . And inside those pixels live four kinds of digital ghosts haunting every laptop and phone:

The Ghost of a Date: A warranty receipt that expires next week, a medical lab test due for a repeat, or a coupon that dies tonightβ€”trapped inside a flat image where your calendar can't see it.

The Ghost of a Secret: A national ID number, tax form, blood test report, or Wi-Fi password sitting unredacted in a folder that any app with gallery permissions can read.

The Ghost of a Place:…

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