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Letra

Copy the text your Mac won’t let you select

Productivity
Menu Bar Apps
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Hunted byNikhil BarikNikhil Barik

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.

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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.

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Congrats on the launch! Someone shares a link on Zoom and never drops it in chat, happens way too often lol, and $5.99 one time is refreshing too. Does it keep indentation when grabbing code from videos? Would be a dream for devs

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.

Letra was featured in Productivity (662.7k followers) and Menu Bar Apps (12.3k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 170.4k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.

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.

Want to see how Letra stacked up against nearby launches in real time? Check out the live launch dashboard for upvote speed charts, proximity comparisons, and more analytics.