A link in a screen share. Code in a video. Text in a scanned PDF. Press ⇧⌘2, drag, and paste. Letra turns on-screen text into clipboard text, entirely on your Mac. Includes QR scanning, multilingual OCR, and searchable history. $5.99 once. No subscription.
Hey Product Hunt 👋 I’m Nikhil, the maker of Letra.
Ever spotted an address, recipe, or useful note in a YouTube video and wished you could save it? Or had someone share a link on Zoom without dropping it in the chat? Sometimes the text you need is right there on screen, but you can’t select it.
With Letra, just press ⇧⌘2, drag over the text, and paste it wherever you need it. No retyping and no extra windows to manage. Letra lives in your Mac’s menu bar until you need it.
It can also:
Extract text from screenshots, clipboard images, image files, and PDFs.
Read QR codes, barcodes, and reasonably neat handwriting.
Recognize multiple languages automatically.
Keep a searchable history of your captures on your Mac. Auto remove sensitive texts.
Work with Raycast, Alfred, and Shortcuts through its URL scheme.
Text recognition runs locally using Apple’s Vision framework. Your captures stay on your Mac, and Letra works offline. No account needed.
What’s something you’ve had to retype because you couldn’t copy it? I’d love to hear how you’d use Letra and what you think of it.
About Letra on Product Hunt
“Copy the text your Mac won’t let you select”
Letra launched on Product Hunt on October 10th, 2026 and earned 65 upvotes and 3 comments, placing #26 on the daily leaderboard. A link in a screen share. Code in a video. Text in a scanned PDF. Press ⇧⌘2, drag, and paste. Letra turns on-screen text into clipboard text, entirely on your Mac. Includes QR scanning, multilingual OCR, and searchable history. $5.99 once. No subscription.
On the analytics side, Letra competes within Productivity and Menu Bar Apps — topics that collectively have 675k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Letra performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Letra?
Letra was hunted by Nikhil Barik. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of Letra including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Nikhil Barik
Hey Product Hunt 👋 I’m Nikhil, the maker of Letra.
Ever spotted an address, recipe, or useful note in a YouTube video and wished you could save it? Or had someone share a link on Zoom without dropping it in the chat? Sometimes the text you need is right there on screen, but you can’t select it.
With Letra, just press ⇧⌘2, drag over the text, and paste it wherever you need it. No retyping and no extra windows to manage. Letra lives in your Mac’s menu bar until you need it.
It can also:
Extract text from screenshots, clipboard images, image files, and PDFs.
Read QR codes, barcodes, and reasonably neat handwriting.
Recognize multiple languages automatically.
Keep a searchable history of your captures on your Mac. Auto remove sensitive texts.
Work with Raycast, Alfred, and Shortcuts through its URL scheme.
Text recognition runs locally using Apple’s Vision framework. Your captures stay on your Mac, and Letra works offline. No account needed.
Give it a look: getletra.app
What’s something you’ve had to retype because you couldn’t copy it? I’d love to hear how you’d use Letra and what you think of it.