Upload, drag in or paste (Ctrl+V) an image. The text is read right in your browser, you get a chance to fix anything it misread, and then it is translated into English, Spanish or 50+ other languages. Free, no sign-up.
Most text you need translated is stuck inside pictures - a menu photographed on holiday, a screenshot of a group chat, a label on imported packaging, a slide from a lecture. translator.im's image translator runs OCR (optical character recognition) in your browser to turn that picture into editable text, shows it to you so you can correct a misread word, and then translates it with the same AI that powers our text translator. What you get back is clean translated text you can copy or listen to - not a redrawn copy of the image.
Photo translation fails quietly when OCR misreads a word and nobody notices. We put the recognised text in front of you first, so the translation is built on what the image actually says.
Click to choose a file, drag an image onto the box, or copy a screenshot and press Ctrl+V (Cmd+V on Mac). On a phone, snap a photo first and pick it from your gallery.
Text recognition happens on your own device, not on a remote OCR service. Only the text you choose to translate is sent for translation.
See exactly what was read from the picture. Fix a misread letter, delete a stray price tag or keep just the paragraph you care about - then translate.
The recognised text is translated by large language models that read the whole passage, so menus, instructions and messages come out as natural sentences.
The most common job is translating a photo to English, but you can send the text into Spanish, Hindi, Arabic, Chinese, French and 50+ other languages.
Copy the translation into a message or document, or press Listen to have it read aloud - handy for showing a shopkeeper or checking pronunciation.
Signs, screenshots, packaging, slides - if the text is printed clearly, the image translator can read it.
Photograph a sign in a station, hotel or museum, upload it, and translate the picture to English before you walk the wrong way.
Screenshot a message, post or app screen in another language and paste it straight in with Ctrl+V. No retyping foreign words letter by letter.
Imported food, cosmetics and gadgets often carry instructions only in the maker's language. Snap the label and translate the photo to English.
Turn a lecture slide or a scanned page into editable text, then translate it into the language you study best in.
From photo to translated text in under a minute.
Open Image mode in the translator above, then upload a file, drag it in, or paste a screenshot with Ctrl+V. Set the source language to the language written in the picture - Auto works for English and other Latin-script text, but for Chinese, Arabic, Hindi, Japanese and similar scripts, choose the language so the right OCR is used.
Read through what the OCR found. Correct any misread characters, remove text you don't need (prices, page numbers, watermarks) and keep the part that matters. Clean input means a cleaner translation.
Pick your target language - English, Spanish or any of 50+ others - and press Translate. Copy the result, or press Listen to hear it read aloud.
Upload, drag or paste an image, check the text, and read it in your language in seconds. Free, no account.