You're traveling abroad, staring at a restaurant menu written entirely in Japanese. You could fumble with a dictionary app, type each character one by one, and hope you get the right meaning. Or you could point your phone at the menu and have every word translated in under two seconds.
That's exactly what ScanThisText's Translator does — and it works with 107+ languages, from Arabic to Zulu.
How It Works: Three Steps, Zero Typing
Step 1 — Scan
Upload a photo or screenshot (PDFs go through the Scanner). Our OCR engine reads every character — even handwritten text, curved signs, and low-contrast labels. No manual typing. No copy-pasting. The AI handles it.
Step 2 — Detect Language
ScanThisText automatically identifies the source language. You don't need to know what language you're looking at — the system detects it from the extracted text with near-perfect accuracy.
Step 3 — Translate
Choose your target language (or let it default to English) and get the full translation instantly. Side-by-side view shows original and translated text for easy comparison.
Why This Beats Traditional Translation Apps
Most translation apps require you to type the text first. That's fine for a single word, but useless for a full page of foreign text. ScanThisText eliminates the bottleneck: you photograph the text, and both extraction and translation happen in one pipeline. No intermediate steps. No errors from manual transcription.
Real-World Use Cases
- Translate restaurant menus, street signs, and train schedules while traveling
- Read foreign-language product labels, ingredients, and safety warnings
- Translate handwritten letters from relatives abroad
- Convert scanned academic papers from one language to another
- Understand legal documents, contracts, or invoices in unfamiliar languages
107+ Languages — Including the Difficult Ones
ScanThisText supports every major world language and dozens of regional ones. That includes complex scripts like Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Hindi, Thai, and Hebrew. The text recognition runs on Google Cloud Vision, which reads all of these scripts.
Try It Free
No signup required. Open the Translator, upload a photo, and see your translation in seconds. Free users get 5,000 characters per day — enough for dozens of scans.
