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Copy the text your Mac won’t let you select
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Details
- External ID
- 1275218
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Lecta
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 10, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 66
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.97
- Tags
- Productivity, Menu Bar Apps
Description
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.
Enrichment
- Niche
- document processing and ocr software
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- screen ocr tool for unselectable text on mac
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Native macOS screen selection OCR can be easily implemented with a lightweight Swift/macOS app wrapping Apple's built-in Vision framework.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 409 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #27 of 410 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 323 days after the earliest competitor.
- TextGrab · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- CopyLasso, a free local screen OCR app for macOS · hn · 2026-08-19 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Universal Clipboard · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Copytrove · ph · 2026-10-13 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Click and Copy · ph · 2026-09-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Tipword · ph · 2026-09-29 · 74 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- ScanCode · ph · 2026-09-06 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- ClipScrub · ph · 2026-09-11 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.50