# Japanese Picture Translator — Images, Photos, Screenshots | TranslateMyManga

Source page: https://translatemymanga.com/japanese-image-translator

> Translate Japanese images to English or 30+ languages: photos, screenshots, game UI, manga panels. Vertical and horizontal text, drawn back in place. Free to start.

Plain-text version of this page for AI assistants and readers. Site overview: https://translatemymanga.com/llms.txt
Prices and plan details change; the current ones are on https://translatemymanga.com/pricing

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Photos · screenshots · signs · manga panels

# Japanese image translator
Translate Japanese images in place

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.
example · 日本語 → English 6 BALLOONS

RAW · 日本語 TRANSLATED · English

An example page, not your upload — drag the divider to compare. Drop your own page in and this becomes your result.
Drop a page here, or click to browse
JPG · PNG · WEBP · PDF · CBZ · CBR — up to 20 MB
Paste a screenshot or an image link anywhere on this page — or try one:
Translate to: Order:

JPG, PNG, WEBP — or paste with Ctrl+V. Reading order is worked out per image.

## How to translate a Japanese image

Three steps, nothing to install.

1

### Add the image

Upload a file, paste a screenshot with Ctrl+V, or paste an image link. Photos from your phone are fine.

2

### Pick the language

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.

3

### Read it in place

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.

## What it does differently

VERTICAL

### Vertical and horizontal

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.

IN PLACE

### Translation drawn back

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.

ANY IMAGE

### Photos, screenshots, scans

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.

CONTEXT

### Whole image at once

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.

## Try it on a Japanese image you already have

Nothing to install and nothing to sign up for.

[Back to the tool](https://translatemymanga.com/japanese-image-translator)

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## Questions

### Can I translate Japanese from a picture?
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.

### Does it work for game screenshots?
Yes — dialogue boxes and menus read reliably. Heavily stylised logo fonts are the usual failure point, not the language.

### Photos of signs and menus?
Yes, as long as the text is reasonably sharp. Angled or blurry photos lower accuracy; a straight-on shot works best.

### Japanese to English only?
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](https://translatemymanga.com/screenshot).

### Is it free?
Signing in free gives you 30 images, plus 3 a day from check-ins. One credit per image after that.