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Translate a Restaurant Menu Image Before You Order

Photograph any menu to translate dish names in place, preserving layout and prices.

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Real results for this kind of image

English restaurant menu with dish names and prices
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Restaurant menuEN → 中文
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Translate a menu in three steps

Photograph one page at a time

Menus are dense, so shoot each page separately and fill the frame. Upload JPG, PNG or WebP up to 30 MB from your phone browser.

Set your language

Imagelator detects whether the menu is Japanese, Italian, Thai or another of 130+ languages and translates it into the one you choose.

Read and point

Dish names appear where they were printed, next to their prices, so you can show the original menu to staff and point at what you want.

What makes menus tricky to translate

Structure you can still scan
Sections

Structure you can still scan

  • Headings such as starters, grilled, noodles or drinks are translated in place, so sections stay visible.
  • Each dish keeps its own price on the same line.
  • Food photos and illustrations on the menu are left untouched.
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Local names, explained
Dish names

Local names, explained

  • Regional dish names can translate oddly; retype any line in the editor for free.
  • Short notes such as “spicy”, “seasonal” or “market price” are translated too.
  • Prefer the original name with a gloss? Type it that way in the editor, for example “tonkotsu ramen (pork-bone broth)”.
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Every page in one batch
Whole menu

Every page in one batch

  • Starter handles up to 20 menu pages per batch; Professional up to 50.
  • Results stay in My Creations, useful when you go back to the same restaurant.
  • Downloads carry no watermark, so you can share the translated menu with the people you are eating with.
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Want the dishes as a list?

The free image-to-text tool turns a menu photo into Markdown text, so you can copy dish names and prices into a note, a message to friends or a translation of your own.

Copy Dish Names and Prices as Text

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