Translating text in images

To translate text from photos and images:

  1. Tap at the bottom of the screen.

  2. Point your camera at the text. Yandex Translate immediately tries to translate it. You don't need to take a photo.

    To select an image on your device, tap on the right.

    To take a picture, tap on the left.

    • If you want to change image orientation, tap .

    • To translate an individual word, tap it. You will see a dictionary entry with examples from literature and movies.

You can copy the translated text into the text input field. To do this, tap .

Troubleshooting

I can't launch the camera

Check your input language. Below is a list of languages that are recognized in images:

Azerbaijani

Maltese

English

German

Arabic

Dutch

Armenian

Norwegian

Bashkir

Polish

Belarusian

Portuguese

Bulgarian

Romanian

Bosnian

Russian

Hungarian

Slovak

Vietnamese

Slovenian

Greek

Tajik

Georgian

Thai

Danish

Tartar

Hebrew

Turkish

Indonesian

Uzbek

Spanish

Ukrainian

Italian

Finnish

Kazakh

French

Kirghiz

Czech

Chinese

Swedish

Korean

Estonian

Latvian

Japanese

Lithuanian

The camera doesn't recognize text

The app doesn't identify blurred or skewed images as well as italics and hand-written text. Try to take a clear photo.

The image came out black or distorted

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