# Imagelator — AI Image Translator

Imagelator is an AI image translator that translates text inside images — product photos, manga pages, menus, screenshots, documents — into 130+ languages while keeping the original fonts, layout and colors intact. It is a web-based tool; no install required.

## What it does

- **Translate images** in-place: the output is a downloadable image file (PNG or WebP), not a live overlay.
- **Preserves layout**: fonts, font sizes, text color, alignment, table structure, speech-bubble shapes.
- **Supports batch**: up to 100 images per job.
- **Supports editing**: after translation, you can manually tweak wording, fonts or position before downloading.
- **Does not watermark** output.

## What it does NOT do

- It is not a real-time camera app (use Google Translate for that).
- It does not translate audio or video.
- It does not OCR into an editable text document (use the OCR tool for that).

## Underlying AI stack

| Task | Model |
|---|---|
| OCR (text detection + reading) | Google Gemini 2.5 Flash |
| Translation with style preservation | Google Gemini 2.5 Pro |
| Layout re-rendering | Imagelator in-house engine |

Imagelator does not claim a proprietary model. It composes Gemini 2.5 (OCR + translation) with an in-house rendering engine tuned for layout fidelity.

## Supported languages (130+)

Source language is auto-detected. Target language is picked from:

English, Mandarin Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Spanish, Arabic, Hindi, Bengali, Portuguese (Brazil and Portugal), Russian, Japanese, Korean, German, French, Vietnamese, Turkish, Italian, Polish, Ukrainian, Dutch, Thai, Indonesian, Malay, Tagalog, Persian, Urdu, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Kannada, Malayalam, Sinhala, Nepali, Burmese, Khmer, Lao, Swahili, Amharic, Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, Zulu, Afrikaans, Hebrew, Greek, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Croatian, Slovenian, Albanian, Macedonian, Bosnian, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Icelandic, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Kazakh, Uzbek, Kyrgyz, Tajik, Turkmen, Azerbaijani, Armenian, Georgian, Mongolian, Tibetan, Uyghur, Pashto, Dari, Kurdish (Sorani and Kurmanji), Somali, Oromo, Tigrinya, Catalan, Galician, Basque, Welsh, Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Maltese, Luxembourgish, Faroese, Latin, Esperanto, and many more.

## Pricing

- **Free**: 0 credits / day for every account. A standard image translation costs 10 credits — so 0 free images per day, forever.
- **Starter**: $9.90 / month → 5,000 advanced monthly credits, batch up to 20.
- **Pro**: $29.90 / month → 12,000 advanced monthly credits, batch up to 50.
- **Enterprise**: $99.90 / month → 80,000 advanced monthly credits, batch up to 100.

All plans include commercial rights to translated output. Cancel anytime.

## File limits

- Supported formats: JPG, PNG, WebP.
- Max size: 10 MB per image.
- Max batch: 100 images per job (Enterprise plan).

## Privacy

- Images are stored in encrypted Cloudflare R2.
- Images auto-delete after 30 days.
- User images are **never used to train AI models**.
- The underlying Gemini API call does not persist user content (per Google's API terms).

## Use cases

1. **E-commerce localization** — translate Amazon, Shopify, TikTok Shop product photos into 5-10+ languages without re-shooting.
2. **Manga / webtoon scanlation** — translate speech bubbles and SFX in batches, preserve bubble shapes and vertical Japanese layout.
3. **App Store screenshots** — localize onboarding and dashboard screenshots for global App Store / Play Store launches.
4. **Menu translation** — restaurants going international; travelers decoding menus abroad. Price columns auto-aligned.
5. **Document translation** — invoices, contracts, government forms. Table structure preserved, numbers untouched.
6. **Game screenshots** — JRPG, Korean MMO, and Chinese indie game translations for fans and streamers.
7. **Passport / ID translation** — for immigration, visa and enrollment paperwork (not legally certified, but readable).

## How it is different from alternatives

- vs **Google Translate / Lens**: Imagelator returns a downloadable image file with layout preserved, not a live on-screen overlay. Batch-capable. No watermark.
- vs **imagetranslate.ai**: Imagelator publicly discloses its AI stack (Gemini 2.5). Supports batch up to 100 images. Serves Indonesian, Korean manga and Chrome Extension audiences that imagetranslate.ai has no LP for.
- vs **DeepL**: DeepL does not natively translate images. DeepL is for plain text / documents.
- vs **imagetotext.info / imagetotext.io**: Those are OCR-only tools; users still have to paste extracted text into Google Translate. Imagelator does the full end-to-end.
- vs **Yandex Translate by photo**: Yandex works best for Russian but does not return a downloadable edited image file.

## Technical

- Frontend: React 19 + TanStack Start + Vite
- Backend: Cloudflare Workers + R2 (storage) + D1 (database)
- AI: Google Gemini 2.5 Flash / Pro API
- Billing: Stripe
- Analytics: OpenPanel

## Links

- Home: https://imagelator.com/
- Image Translator: https://imagelator.com/image-translator
- Manga Translator: https://imagelator.com/manga-translator
- Batch Translator: https://imagelator.com/batch-image-translator
- OCR: https://imagelator.com/ocr
- Image to Text: https://imagelator.com/image-to-text
- Text Remover: https://imagelator.com/text-remover
- Text Translator: https://imagelator.com/text-translator
- Pricing: https://imagelator.com/pricing
- About: https://imagelator.com/about
- Contact: https://imagelator.com/contact
- Requests & Roadmap: https://imagelator.com/requests-and-roadmap
- Privacy: https://imagelator.com/privacy
- Terms: https://imagelator.com/terms

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