Selectable: OCR & Text Capture
Make anything selectable
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Make anything selectable
27 followers
Capture and extract text from anywhere on your Mac’s screen, including images and videos. Instantly translate (on macOS 26+), listen with TTS, and mask sensitive data.
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As a designer and developer, copying text from images on my Mac was always tedious. I’d either drop the image into ChatGPT and ask it to extract the text, or save the file, open it in Preview, use the text selection tool, and copy what I needed. Either way, multiple steps for something that should be instant.
So I built Selectable.
Press a shortcut. Drag over any region of your screen. The text is on your clipboard.
Selectable lets you capture and extract text from anywhere on your Mac’s screen, including images and videos. From the same selection, you can instantly translate (on macOS 26+), listen with TTS, or mask sensitive data before sharing. Runs entirely on-device using Apple Vision. No cloud, no analytics, no account.
What’s new in v2.1: Smart Capture
Plain OCR gives you text. Smart Capture gives you structure.
Drag over a table on a webpage and Selectable returns a clean Markdown table. Drag over a nested list and it keeps the indentation. Drag over mixed content and the headings, lists, and paragraphs all stay where they should. Pick Markdown or JSON. Powered by Apple Intelligence, on-device. macOS 26 only.
Learn more → https://youtu.be/nGIym8bniN4
Selectable also does:
Translate captured text in 13 languages (macOS 26)
Read aloud any text on screen with built-in TTS
Mask sensitive info (emails, phone numbers, credit cards, IPs) before sharing screenshots
Custom shortcuts for every capture mode
Works on macOS 11 (Big Sur) and later. Smart Capture and Auto Translate require macOS 26. Available as a notarized DMG from https://selectable.so or on the Mac App Store.
30% off for the launch with code PRODUCTHUNT (first 500)
https://selectable.so
Built by Frmwrk Software (https://frmwrk.so).
Okay so I'm not someone who usually buys apps — I've been on Mac for a while now and always just made do with whatever came built-in. But Selectable is genuinely my first paid Mac app purchase, and I have zero regrets.
The problem it solves is so specific and so annoying — you know when you're staring at a screenshot, or a locked PDF, or a video frame, and you just need to grab a line of text but there's absolutely no way to select it? I used to either retype it manually or dump it into ChatGPT. Both feel ridiculous in the big 26.
Selectable just fixes it. Hit the shortcut, drag over the region, text is on your clipboard. That's it. No accounts, no cloud upload, nothing sketchy — it all runs on-device using Apple's own Vision framework.
Smart Capture feature and 30% launch discount makes it a no-brainer. 100% recommend it
Thank you @manindersingh1, this genuinely means a lot, especially knowing it's your first paid Mac app!
OCR that works directly on screen without upload is genuinely useful. I often need to grab text from video frames or design files and the usual flow is way too slow. The TTS and sensitive data masking features are good additions. Curious how it handles handwritten text or low-contrast fonts.
This is great! was looking for something like this, converts OCR's to .MD files, this is saving lot of tokens for me.
@nitinsm Thank you nitin!