Screen to text

Copy any text.
Paste it anywhere.

Letra lives in your menu bar. Press ⌘⇧2, drag over anything on screen — a video, a PDF, a Zoom share, a screenshot — and the text is already in your clipboard.

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The best hotels in Zermatt

  1. 01Chalet MondlichtBahnhofstrasse 41, 3920 Zermatt
  2. 02Hotel SternenfeldHofmattstrasse 12, 3920 Zermatt
  3. 03Haus BergfriedenRiedstrasse 7, 3920 Zermatt
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Switzerland trip
Hotel Sternenfeld
Hofmattstrasse 12, 3920 Zermatt
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Made for moments
you’d rather not retype.

Calls, scans, screenshots, video, QR codes, stickers and neat handwriting. If you can see it, Letra can copy it.

Someone shares a link on a call and never drops it in the chat. Grab it off their screen and open it yourself.

Pixels in.
Plain text out.

No windows to manage and no files to save. Letra waits in the menu bar until you need it, then gets out of the way.

  1. 01

    Press ⌘⇧2

    Or any shortcut you set. Your cursor turns into a crosshair, ready to select.

  2. 02

    Drag over anything

    A paused lecture, a slide in a screen share, a PDF that refuses to let you highlight.

  3. Notes⌘V

    Churn held flat at 2.1% and support volume dropped after the rewrite.

    03

    Paste

    Vision reads the region on your Mac and puts clean text on the clipboard before you let go.

Everything you see,
now copyable.

Letra began as a quicker way to pull text out of screenshots. Then it learned QR codes, links, clipboard images, and a handful of small habits that save you a trip to the keyboard.

  • On-device OCR
  • QR & barcodes
  • 20+ languages
  • Language auto-detect
  • Neat handwriting
  • Clipboard images
  • PNG, JPEG & PDF files
  • Auto-open QR links
  • Searchable history
  • Global shortcut
  • URL scheme
  • Raycast & Alfred friendly
  • Accurate or fast mode
  • Keep line breaks
  • Launch at login
  • Privacy first

Reads more than text

Letra notices when what you grabbed is a link or a QR code, and it reads images you already copied. Most of the time you won't think about it, and that's the point.

  • QR codes and barcodes

    Drag over a code on a slide or a poster photo and get the payload. QR links can open on their own if you turn that on.

  • Clipboard images and files

    Copied a screenshot? Letra reads images straight from your clipboard, or any PNG, JPEG or PDF you open.

  • Links, detected

    When what you grab is a URL, Letra files it under Links so it is one click away in your history.

QR code
Decoded
cafe.menu/t12
Preview4 min ago
Link
developer.apple.com/documentation/vision
Safari7 min ago
Text

Revenue grew 18% quarter over quarter, driven mostly by the new team plan.

Zoom2 min ago
On your clipboardPNG · JPEG · PDF
Ship it Friday.
Zoom share
Screenshot 2026-10-01 at 09.41.12.png
Text you can pasteText

Ship it Friday. Freeze the branch Thursday at noon. QA runs overnight and we cut the release first thing.

Copied to clipboard

Private by design

What's on your screen is yours. Letra reads it, hands you the text, and forgets the pixels.

  • Apple Vision, on your Mac

    Recognition runs locally with Apple’s Vision framework.

  • No account

    Nothing to sign up for, nothing to sign in to.

  • Offline by default

    Captures never leave your machine. Recognition works with Wi-Fi off.

  • History stays local

    Your capture history lives on your Mac. Clear it whenever you like.

Capture data sent · last 30 days Offline
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A first run that
respects your time.

Five short screens. Paste your key, grant one permission with a plain reason, pick a shortcut, and you’re back to work.

  1. Meet Letra.
    Text from anywhere.
    Get started →
    Step 1

    Welcome

    One screen that says what Letra does. No tour, no feature carousel.

  2. Activate
    your license.
    3f9c2a7e-8b41-4d2c-9e6a-1c5b7d0f42ab
    From your receipt email
    Activate
    Step 2

    Activate your license

    Paste the key from your receipt email and every feature unlocks on that Mac.

  3. One permission.
    Zero surprises.
    Screen RecordingOnly while you draw a selectionRequired
    Open System Settings
    Step 3

    Screen Recording

    The one permission it needs, with a plain reason, live status, and a button straight to System Settings.

  4. Your shortcut.
    Your muscle memory.
    Copy text⌘⇧2
    Launch at login
    Open QR links
    Step 4

    Pick your shortcut

    Keep ⌘⇧2 or record your own, and set launch at login and QR auto-open while you’re there.

  5. Try your first
    capture.
    Good tools get out of the way.
    John Appleseed
    Press ⇧shift⌘command@2 and drag
    Copied to clipboard
    Step 5

    Try your first capture

    A sample paragraph to practice on, so the first real capture just works.

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Yours for good.

Pay once and Letra is yours, updates included. Not for you? Email us within 7 days for a full refund.

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Stop retyping.
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Fully on-device and yours for a one-time $5.99. Installing it takes less time than retyping one paragraph.

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