Picture Translator: Translate Text from a Picture to English

No. The OCR engine and the language pack you picked are served from this site and run inside your browser, so the image is read on your own machine. The text that comes out of it is sent to a translation model. The picture itself never leaves your computer.

Drop the picture in, set "Text in the image is" to the language in the picture, set "Translate into" to English, and press Start. The text is read on your machine, translated, and drawn back over the picture. Download the result as a PNG at the same pixel size as the original, with no watermark and no sign-up, or copy the original and the English from the list under it.

Yes, if the text in the photo is flat, sharp and reasonably large: a sign photographed straight on, a menu on a table, a page from a book. Text at an angle, text curving around a bottle, handwriting, low resolution, heavy shadow and photos taken from the side come out wrong or not at all. When nothing readable is found, the tool says so and stops: nothing is sent and none of your daily allowance is used.

Yes. Google Translate on the web has an Images tab: you upload or paste a picture, and Google's help page says you can copy the translated text or download the translated image. The difference is where the picture goes. With Google Translate you upload it to Google. Here the picture is read inside your browser and only the words it finds are sent to be translated, so the image itself never leaves your computer.

Six: English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese and Russian. Pick the one that is in your picture from the list above the queue. The engine reads one at a time, and the wrong pick comes back as nonsense, which you will see in the list under the result. Only the pack you pick is downloaded. Japanese, Korean, Arabic and Thai are not read yet.

Nineteen, including Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Russian, Arabic, Hindi, Indonesian, Thai, Vietnamese, Turkish, Dutch and Polish. Pick from the list on the tool.

The original text is covered with the average colour found around it, and the translation is drawn on top in a plain system font. On a white document or a flat screenshot the patch is invisible; on a photo, a gradient or a busy background you will see it. Fonts, colours, bold, italics and any effect on the original text are not reproduced.

Usually. A translation is often longer than its source, so the type is shrunk to fit its box. When even the smallest size does not fit, the text runs past the edge of the box rather than being cut off.