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fzf for your screen: find any text (even unselectable text) on your Mac's screen by typing a few letters — then click it, select it, or copy it, all without the mouse. Recognition runs entirely on-device — your screen never leaves your Mac.
Textracto is a macOS app (14+) that lets you effortlessly copy text, even when it's unselectable.
Option-Space lets you fuzzy-find any text on screen, then select it or copy it to your clipboard, without ever using the mouse.
I'm often asked to get IDs out of screenshots, and I like using extrakto (https://github.com/laktak/extrakto/) for copying text in my terminal, so why not have the same thing for the rest of my screen?
It combines two sources. The Apple AX API is the first pass. At the same time, the Apple Vision API OCRs the screen to capture text from the parts that don't play well with AX, or that are actually images. Both stream into the palette as they get recognized and deduplicated, so even with a slow AX tree, Textracto is still fast.
Permissions: Screen Recording to read the screen, Accessibility to read exact characters and to click.
Privacy: nothing leaves your computer.
I wanted to make it FOSS, but my wife said that if we were paying for an Apple Developer account and a domain, I had to at least try to make the money back. So it's closed source and paid: 250 free uses, then an unobtrusive reminder to buy a license. Make her happy and I'll make it FOSS. It's $2.49 during the beta launch period and $4.99 after.
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About Textracto on Product Hunt
“fzf for your screen”
Textracto was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #15 on the daily leaderboard. fzf for your screen: find any text (even unselectable text) on your Mac's screen by typing a few letters — then click it, select it, or copy it, all without the mouse. Recognition runs entirely on-device — your screen never leaves your Mac.
Textracto was featured in Mac (103.6k followers), Productivity (658.2k followers) and Menu Bar Apps (12.2k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 164.4k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Textracto?
Textracto was hunted by Armand Halbert. 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.
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