Ever wanted to convert the foreign language on a photo??

[keithker]

Here are some easy steps to convert any foreign language from a photo...

First you have to extract the text from the .jpg or image. That can be done here:

https://www.onlineocr.net/

Then simply take the text and have google convert it....

In google type translate from XXXX language to English....

Here is an example of one I recently did...

Translates to - "The beer can only appeared in 1933. An invention owed to the Krueger Brewing Co., based in New Jersey"

[steelersfan81]

Good info - thanks for sharing. On ocr tools, you may also look at Grooper for reading PDF documents. I am using it to capture both data from both electronic files (like txt files) or scanned files (like PDFs): https://www.bisok.com/grooper-data-capt ... -pass-ocr/

[foreigncanman]

I am interested in trying it with beer cans etc with cyrillic script. It may be sometimes difficult to determine language.

[Mark (expired)]

The Google Translate app for iphones is another method.
You select the language "from" and "to" then allow the use of the camera. It starts with a live image which often flickers across a range of words, BUT, at the bottom you will see [|] Scan, and if you activate it, it will take a scan of all of the words visible. Tap the "select all" below, then a blue bar shows up at top with a blue arrow to the right - tap the arrow and you should see all the words translated. Not perfect, and a bit of experimentation to get it to work - but free and portable. It allows you to forward by text message or email the translation.