AI Image Translator

Upload a photo, screenshot, menu or document — get the text extracted and translated into 70+ languages, with the original layout preserved.

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Photos, screenshots, menus, signs, manga, docs — up to 20 MB.
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Why Use Our AI Image Translator

Stop typing words out of a picture by hand or pasting them through three different tools. Upload an image once and our image translator extracts every word, translates it accurately, and lays the result side by side with the original — OCR and translation rolled into one.

Woman in a café holding a postcard with a handwritten French line, selected and translated into English

Vision AI built to translate text in image

Powered by frontier vision models that read printed text, handwriting, and stylized fonts — the kind of accuracy generic OCR and Google Translate image scans miss on tricky photos and screenshots.

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Man photographing a Korean bakery sign in Seoul, the sign translated with English, Spanish and French options

Picture translator for 100+ languages

Translate image to English from Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Spanish, French, German, Arabic, Hebrew, Russian, and more. The same picture translator works the other way too — translate English photos into any supported language.

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Young man at a Lisbon tram stop photographing a Portuguese notice, translated in the browser with no app

Free, online, no install

Use it as a free AI image translator right in the browser. No download, no extension, no sign-up to try it. Faster than a photo translator app, available on any device with a camera roll.

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What People Translate With the AI Image Translator

  • Translate menus, signs & photos abroad

    Snap a menu, street sign, or product label and translate the photo on the spot. Handwritten chalkboards, neon signs, and tiny ingredient lists — the kinds of shots where Google Translate's image mode tends to break — come out clean.

  • Translate screenshots & documents

    Drop a screenshot of a chat, contract, error message, or PDF page and translate the text from the image instantly. Great for translating screenshots from apps that block copy-paste, or scanned documents you can't easily OCR.

  • Translate manga, comics & doujin

    Use it as an AI manga translator and comic translator: upload a manga page or comic panel and translate manga to English in seconds. A faster manga image translator than dedicated manga translator apps, with the same accuracy on Korean manhwa and Chinese manhua.

  • Translate Japanese, Chinese & Korean images

    Works as a Japanese, Chinese, and Korean image translator in one tool. Translate Japanese text from a photo, decode kanji on a sign, or pull Chinese and Korean characters out of an image — no separate app needed.

  • Translate Spanish, Arabic, Hebrew & more

    Translate Spanish, Arabic, Hebrew, German, Italian, Polish, or Tagalog text in any photo. Right-to-left scripts and accented Latin alphabets are handled cleanly, so you can translate text from a photo in nearly any European or Middle Eastern language.

  • Translate text on images for content & study

    Researchers, students, and creators use the AI photo translator to translate slides, lecture notes, infographics, social posts, and reference images — then copy the translated text straight into a doc, deck, or essay.

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Upload an image — a photo, screenshot, scanned document, or manga page — and our vision model reads every piece of text in it, including handwriting and stylized fonts. It then translates that text into your chosen language and shows the original photo next to the translation, so you can copy, download, or re-translate paragraph by paragraph. The whole flow takes a few seconds and works directly in the browser.

Open the image translator above, drop in or paste your photo (you can also paste from your clipboard or load it from a URL), pick the source and target language, and hit Translate. Within a few seconds you'll see the translated text — no install, no sign-up, no extension. It works as an online image translator on desktop and mobile browsers.

Photos, screenshots, scanned PDFs, restaurant menus, road signs, product labels, manga and comic pages, handwritten notes, slides, and infographics all work — anything up to 20 MB. The clearer the picture, the better the picture translator can read it: avoid heavy blur, glare, and extreme angles where possible. Both printed text and handwriting are supported.

Overchat is one of the best free image translators online. Where Google Translate's image scan stumbles on handwriting, manga panels, or low-light photos, our vision model still extracts and translates the text — with cleaner formatting and a side-by-side view instead of an overlay glued onto the original.

Yes, you can try it for free — no credit card needed. Overchat is a paid platform with many free AI tools (image generator, photo translator, AI writer, and more), so create a free account to keep translating images, screenshots, and manga without limits.