Image Translator

Images are everywhere online, either screenshots, posters, product photos, slides, comics or documents. When they’re in another language, copying text out manually is slow and frustrating. Image Translator lets you upload an image, translate the text into your language, and download a clean, readable version in seconds without breaking the layout.Our Image Translator converts photos, screenshots, scanned pages, and even handwritten notes into readable, editable text in over 130 languages.


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Translate Images in 1 Click

Translate Images in 1 Click (No Re-Typing)

What you get:

  • Accurate text detection (OCR)
  • Natural AI translation
  • Original design preserved
  • Fast download, ready to use

The need for fast, reliable translation keeps growing. The language services market was $71.53B in 2024 and is projected to reach $127.53B by 2032, driven by multilingual content and automation.

Fast Translation for Single or Bulk Images

Translate in Seconds

Upload → choose language → click Translate.
Most images finish quickly, even with multiple text blocks.

Bulk Upload & Export

Upload many images at once, translate them together, then download the results in one go.Ideal for product catalogues, training docs, or research batches.
AI-driven OCR adoption is rising fast; the OCR market was about $12.2B in 2024 and is expected to grow strongly through the next decade.

Fast Translation for Single or Bulk Images
Travel & On-the-Go Image Translation

Travel & On-the-Go Image Translation

International travel is back at full speed — 1.4 billion international tourist arrivals were recorded in 2024. With more people moving across borders, language barriers show up everywhere: street signs, metro maps, airport instructions, hotel notices, tickets, and museum displays.
A 2025 survey found that 32% of travellers intentionally choose English-speaking destinations because they feel anxious about foreign languages. The same study shows that 54% say knowing the local language makes navigation easier (like reading signs), and 49% say it helps in everyday travel situations such as ordering food or checking in.
How Image Translator helps travellers:

  • Translate road signs, safety notices, and public transport boards instantly.
  • Understand check-in rules, hotel instructions, and local forms without guessing.
  • Translate attraction labels and guides while keeping layouts readable.
  • Save time during travel with one-click, camera-ready results.
Result: travellers stay confident, avoid mistakes, and explore freely without needing to type a single word.

Menus, Recipes & Food Images for Chefs and Restaurants

Food content is highly visual, like menus, recipe cards, packaging, kitchen SOPs, and promo posters often come as images. But language friction slows down teams and customers. In that same 2025 travel survey, 35% of travellers said they point at menus to avoid dealing with foreign words, showing how common menu-translation stress still is.
Demand for fast food image translation is rising. Industry research estimates the AI menu translation market was about $1.2B in 2024 and is projected to grow rapidly through 2033 as restaurants and delivery platforms expand globally.
How Image Translator supports food professionals:

  • Translate menu photos and boards for tourists or international customers.
  • Convert recipe screenshots into your language without re-typing.
  • Localize packaging images and food ads for new regions.
  • Bulk-translate menu sets or product catalogues in one workflow.
Result: clearer communication, faster service, and more confident customers.

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More Everyday Ways People Use Image Translation

More Everyday Ways People Use Image Translation

Language barriers don’t only happen while travelling — they show up daily in work, study, and entertainment. Image Translator is built for real-world image types, not just simple screenshots.
Popular everyday use cases:

  • Study & Research: translate charts, slides, book photos, or academic diagrams.
  • Work & Business: translate product images, training docs, infographics, and ads.
  • Comics & Entertainment: translate manga/manhua panels while keeping the art and layout intact.
  • Social Media: translate quotes, memes, posters, and viral content instantly.
  • Technical Visuals: translate manuals, labels, or engineering diagrams without losing formatting.
Result: faster understanding, fewer errors, and zero manual copying.

How our Photo Translator tool works


Upload Your Image:

Open the upload box of the translate photo tool and either drag your image into place or click “Upload Image” to browse for a file on your device. You may also enter from Dropbox or paste a public image URL. The uploader supports all popular formats such as JPG, PNG, JPEG, GIF, TIFF, and WEBP, as well as many uncommon ones. So the upload interface is deceptively simple, designed to be approachable for anyone who wants to get started with just one click, no signup required, no confusing options.

Select the Source language:

After you upload it, choose the language in your image from the “Translate From” menu. If you’re unsure in which language the content of the source text is, click on “Auto-Detect”, and our imagery translate tool will quickly identify the language. The language dropdown has 130+ options, including regional, national and many minority languages from Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the Americas. This procedure is essential to ensure proper model usage for OCR character recognition and script segmentation.

Select the Language to Which You Want to Translate:

Then, choose the language to which you want to translate the extracted text from the “Translate To” menu. You can map any supported language to any other, Japanese to English, Arabic to Spanish, Amharic to French, even Korean to Portuguese. This picture translation tool supports common translations between the world's major languages and has compiled a good list of wider (less-used) pairs based on regional usage.

Preview, edit and download:

The translated text is displayed in an editable output pane alongside the original image. You may edit and respond, including paragraph breaks and formatting. When you’re ready, either copy the text or download it. All of this happens instantly and safely, no signup, no watermark, and there’s no limit on how many images you translate.

Delete and Privacy settings automatically:

Once your session finishes, uploaded images and translated outputs are purged from our temporary processing environment unless you download the file. We've taken several precautions to ensure this, including using HTTPS for all data transfers and other best practices for your privacy.

Key Features


Advanced AI Translation Engine

High-quality picture translate tool uses industry-leading AI models, advanced technology OCR to help users generate professional-grade translations at ease. It’s an integrated system to ensure that users receive clean, effective translations without needing technical knowledge. We optimized every part of the system, from detection to translation; it provides an elegant experience that’s both easy and powerful.

Supports 130+ Global Languages

The imagery translate identifies and translates texts in over 130 languages, including all of the world's major writing systems and regional scripts. No matter what the language of your image text, you can rest assured that the engine will recognize it with great accuracy. The global reach is a valuable tool to all national and international tourists, students and scholars dealing with multilingual content.

OCR That Works Across Multiple Samples

At its core is a powerful OCR engine that has been trained on millions of photos. It does an excellent job recognizing both printed and handwritten text, even when it's placed in odd locations on a page or is rotated. To cope with difficult inputs, our imagery translate system automatically sharpens the image, enhances contrast and reduces background noise: thus providing better recognition performance. These post-processing steps are all more accurate than standard free OCR software, especially for low-light phone photos.

Context-Aware Translation for Natural Results

As the text is parsed, our translation on the image engine selectively replaces hundreds of words to realize a dynamic sense of meaning and tone. So instead of the word paradigm, the system looks for patterns of words that will yield more natural-sounding translations. This is especially important in instructions, academic material, marketing text and any type of document where meaning matters. Even complicated formatting, headers, paragraphs and the format of lists is preserved where possible.

Fast Processing with Optimised Performance

User experience has a lot to do with speed. Most common images will fully translate in less than four seconds because of optimized inference and server-side acceleration. The design is intentionally focused on providing high-efficiency performance.

Clean, Simple and Intuitive Interface

Friction has been engineered out of the interface at every turn. Users are able to rapidly select a source language, choose a target language, see progress made in translation, edit the translated result and download in multiple formats without being redirected through advertisements or account popups. Everything is user-friendly, so you do not need to have a technical background in order to work with this tool, since we simplified it for everyone.

Batch Handling for High-Volume Workflows

For anyone working with multiple images, from educators conducting research to office workers or small business owners, batch translation saves time. The system remains accurate across varying resolutions of images, multiple image formats and lighting conditions. It's perfect for scanning invoices, bills and classroom notes or storing these types of documents in a digital archive. The picture translate tool is designed for productivity and takes ease of use as the most important factor.

Why We Make Image Translate Free

  • We consider language access to be a public good, and one that should be accessible to individuals at all budget levels.
  • Free access facilitates worldwide learning and information exchange, particularly in emerging countries.
  • Offering a free service enables more users to contribute diverse language samples, which in turn strengthens our models and benefits all users.
  • We also have a streamlined support system that will keep your operating costs low and results high.

Why We Make Image Translate Free

Frequently asked questions


Yes. The image translation service is free, and no registration is necessary.

We support more than 130 languages, including national and regional languages across Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas.

Yes. The OCR is trained to know many handwritings and artistic fonts. Accurate reading is achieved when images are less noisy, but we apply enhancement algorithms to maximize the readability of problematic entries.

Security is a priority. Files are not stored, but are instead immediately downloaded once encryption is completed. Pictures are deleted automatically after translation unless you save them to your device.

You can upload JPG, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, WEBP, BMP, etc. You can also upload an image via Dropbox or a direct link to a public image.

The average time to translate an image may take 2-4 seconds per image, based on file size and internet connection. If the files are complex multi-page documents, they can take much longer.

Yes. The system is able to recognize and translate multilingual images. You can translate the whole image into one language, or else specific parts of it separately.

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