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Screen Recording to SOP

Record a task once and get a step-by-step guide with screenshots.

Advanced24h1–3 people17/20 fit
TL;DR

Build Screen Recording to SOP for operations teams and trainers in ~24h with 1–3 people. Stack: Whisper + FFmpeg + LLM.

Why it wins: Turns tribal knowledge into docs automatically.

Build flow

01 · Problem
Writing process documentation is tedious, so it never happens.
02 · Solution
Capture a recording, detect key frames and clicks, transcribe narration and generate numbered steps with annotated screenshots.
03 · Build
  1. 1Record the screen
  2. 2Extract key frames
  3. 3Transcribe and align
  4. 4Generate the guide
04 · Demo
Record a three-minute process and show the generated guide.

MVP checklist

  • Key frame detection
  • Step generation
  • Annotated screenshots
  • Export

Tech stack

TechRole
WhisperSpeech-to-text
FFmpegTooling
LLMLanguage model

Reference repos

Open-source projects you can build on. Links checked 2026-10-31.

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