Point at any picture — a sign, a menu, a poster, a screenshot — name the target language, and every visible word is rewritten natively in place. Fonts, layout and background survive the translation.
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Font-preserving
Same typeface & weight
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Context intact
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GPT Image 2 engine
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To translate text in image files, upload the picture and type the target language. The AI image translator detects every visible label and rewrites it in place — matching the original typeface, size, color and position — so menus, signs, posters and screenshots come out looking natively designed in the new language. Over 19 languages supported, from Japanese and Korean to Spanish, Arabic and German.
Translate text in image — before & after example
Drag the slider to compare. The translated text keeps the original font, color and position — as if the picture were designed in the target language.
Translate text in image files for any scenario
Anywhere words and pictures are fused, this image translator swaps the language without breaking the design.
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Menus & restaurant signage
Translate text in image menus for tourists or franchise localization — dishes, prices and allergens in the guest's language, same layout.
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Travel photos & street signs
Understand that photographed sign — or localize your travel content for readers back home, perspective intact.
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Marketing localization
One master poster, every market. Translate text in image campaigns without rebuilding the artwork per locale.
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App screenshot localization
Rewrite UI captures for each App Store locale while device frames and layouts stay identical across markets.
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Packaging & labels
Meet export-market labeling requirements by translating ingredient lists and claims directly on the pack shot.
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Documents & scanned pages
Translate text in image scans of letters, certificates and forms for reference copies — originals stay authoritative.
What a real AI image translator does differently
Overlay translators put a sticker on your picture. This one re-typesets the words into the scene.
In-place re-rendering: Translated labels replace the originals at the same position, size and style — not floating on top.
Typeface continuity: A hand-painted sign gets hand-painted translation; a geometric UI font stays geometric.
Selective translation: Translate everything, or pin a single phrase and protect the rest of the wording.
Script-aware layout: Cyrillic, Arabic, CJK and Latin scripts reflow to fit their original containers naturally.
Photographed text included: Real-world surfaces — wood, neon, paper, glass — keep their texture under the new language.
One credit per image: Free credits to start. Translate text in image files at scale with affordable packs.
How to translate text in image files
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Upload the picture
Any image with visible text works — signs, menus, posters, screenshots, scans. Crop to focus if needed.
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Name the target language
Type the language you want (plus register or glossary notes). Optionally pin one phrase to translate only that.
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Generate & download
The AI image translator rewrites the text in place. Review at full size, download the localized image.
Why translating text inside images is hard — and now solved
Machine translation of plain text has been solved for years. Translating text in an image is a different discipline: the words must first be read off the picture, then translated, then re-drawn — at the right size, in a fitting typeface, on the same background, in the same position. Older tools did the first two steps and faked the third with an overlay box. The result was readable but visually broken, fine for a tourist's personal use and useless for anything published.
An AI image translator built on GPT Image 2 closes the loop. Because the model renders images rather than pasting labels, the translated words become part of the scene: a French café menu keeps its chalkboard lettering when it becomes Japanese; an app button keeps its rounded UI font when the label flips to German. You can translate text in image assets and ship them to production channels, not just your camera roll.
That opens real workflows: localization teams translate text in image campaigns once per market; restaurant owners produce multilingual menus from one photo; App Store screenshots come out of a single capture session. The layout is the brand, and this keeps it.
Getting publication-ready translations
Give the translator a brief, not just a language. 'Japanese, polite register, keep the brand name ROMA in Latin letters' produces a materially better result than 'Japanese' alone — the same brief you'd give a human localizer. List protected terms (brand names, model numbers) so they survive the pass.
Watch length. German runs long, Japanese runs short; when a translated label must fit a tight button or a narrow sign, say so — 'shorten to fit, abbreviate if needed' — and the model compresses gracefully. When you translate text in image UI screenshots, container-fit instructions are the difference between shipped and reshoot.
Finally, proofread the output like any machine translation. Rendering quality and translation quality are separate axes; a beautifully typeset word can still be the wrong register. When you translate text in image files for signage, menus or packaging going to real audiences, one native-speaker check closes the loop.
Translate Text in Image — FAQ
Upload the image, type the target language (e.g. 'Spanish' or 'Japanese'), and generate. The AI image translator rewrites every visible label into the target language while keeping the original fonts, colors, layout and background. To translate text in image files that contain many languages, list the target and any terms to keep unchanged.
Camera apps overlay translated words on a live feed or return an augmented screenshot with floating labels. An AI image translator re-renders the text INTO the image — matching typeface, size and position — so you get a clean, shareable picture that looks like it was originally designed in the target language.
All major languages, including English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Polish, Turkish, Arabic, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, both Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Thai, Vietnamese and Indonesian. To translate text in image scenes with mixed scripts, name each target explicitly.
Yes. Type the specific text you want translated in the 'text to translate' field, and only that phrase is rewritten — everything else, including other words in the picture, stays in the original language. Great when one sign in a photo matters and the rest is set dressing.
The model naturally reflows translated labels to fit their original containers — a German compound gets compacted, a short Japanese phrase gets breathing room. If space is tight, add an instruction like 'slightly reduce size to fit the button' when you translate text in image captures with rigid UI.
That's the classic use case. Translate text in image photos of street signs, restaurant menus, product packaging and documents: the translation keeps the surface texture, lighting and perspective of the real-world scene.
Translation quality follows GPT Image 2's language strength: high for major-language pairs on clear source text. For critical translations (legal, medical), verify the output with a human translator — the same caution you'd apply to any machine translation.
Yes. Localize your own posters, menus, packaging and screenshots for any market. Don't translate text in image files you don't have rights to, and remember that localized versions of official documents have no legal standing.
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