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Thoughts on text extraction, productivity, and building tools for macOS.

Slack thread showing a production error log with Selectable's cursor capturing a request ID from the terminal output

Copy text from images and videos on Mac

Terminal window with npx commands and a Vercel tweet, showing unselectable text across different surfaces

Why text on your screen isn't always selectable

Japanese email in macOS Mail with Selectable's capture cursor selecting text from the message body

How to translate text from anywhere on your Mac

Scanned invoice PDF with non-selectable text rendered as flat gray lines

How to copy text from PDFs that won't let you select

YouTube video of a Next.js Conf talk paused on a slide showing Bun runtime configuration code

How to extract text from videos on Mac

PDF book page with Selectable's Copied and Speaking overlay reading captured text aloud

How to read text aloud from images on Mac

Select text from anywhere.

Extract, copy, translate, or listen to text from anywhere on your screen.