A Japanese picture translator for the images Lens gets wrong: translate Japanese from a picture — a photo of a sign, a game screenshot, a product label, a manga panel — into English or 30+ languages. Vertical and horizontal text both, drawn back where it was.
JPG, PNG, WEBP — or paste with Ctrl+V. Reading order is worked out per image.
Three steps, nothing to install.
Upload a file, paste a screenshot with Ctrl+V, or paste an image link. Photos from your phone are fine.
English by default; any of 30+ languages. The Japanese is detected block by block, vertical or horizontal, and translated with the whole image as context.
The translation is drawn back over the original text. Download the PNG, or draw a box over anything the detector missed and it reads just that region.
Tategaki columns are read as columns, horizontal lines as lines, in the same image. General OCR turns vertical Japanese into a stack of unrelated characters.
The English goes where the Japanese was — on the sign, in the menu, inside the balloon — so the picture still reads as a picture, not a list of strings.
A shop sign you photographed, a game screenshot, a product label, a manga panel. JPG, PNG, WEBP, or paste from the clipboard with Ctrl+V.
Every text block is translated in one pass with the whole image as context, so a product name in the header and in the fine print come out the same.
Nothing to install and nothing to sign up for.
Yes. Upload the picture or paste it with Ctrl+V, pick the target language, and the Japanese text is detected, translated and drawn back where it was. Vertical text is handled.
Yes — dialogue boxes and menus read reliably. Heavily stylised logo fonts are the usual failure point, not the language.
Yes, as long as the text is reasonably sharp. Angled or blurry photos lower accuracy; a straight-on shot works best.
Japanese to English is the most common use, but the target can be any of 30+ languages. Korean and Chinese source images work too — see the screenshot translator.
3 images a day free with no account; signing up adds 30. One credit per image after that.