How do I translate text in a picture to English on Windows 10?

If you want to translate picture text to English. The Snipping Tool that comes with Windows 10 and 11 has a built-in OCR feature. It's 100% free. Here's exactly how to use it:

1. Open the image or screen that has the text you want.

2. Press Win + Shift + S — this brings up the Snipping Tool overlay.

3. At the top, click the "Text action" icon (it looks like a letter "T" inside a square).

4. Now, drag a box around the text you want to capture.

5. The tool will scan the selected area, copy all recognized text to your clipboard, and show it in a popup window/.

6. From there, you can:

• Paste the text (Ctrl + V) into any translator like Google Translate or even Microsoft Word.
• Click "Copy all text" or "Copy as table" if it's tabular data.

That's it. No downloads, no paid tools, no third-party nonsense — just a free feature that's already sitting on your machine.

To translate picture text to English — it just extracts the raw text. But since the text is copied to your clipboard, you can:

• Paste it into Google Translate (free, browser-based).
• Paste it into Microsoft Translator (free, also built into Windows via the Win + Shift + T shortcut in Power Toys — but that's an optional Microsoft add-on).

If you want to avoid even that and keep it fully offline and Microsoft-native, you can paste the text into Microsoft Word and use its built-in translation feature (Review tab → Translate). Word's translation is powered by Microsoft's engine and doesn't cost anything extra if you already have Office.