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How do I translate text in a picture to English on Windows 10?
Dealing with a bunch of pictures that have text in another language printed directly onto them. Can't select or highlight the text since it's part of the image, so standard copy-paste translation isn...
For Windows 10, the usual path is OCR first, translation second. If you have OneNote, paste the picture into a page, right-click the image, and use “Copy Text from Picture.” Then paste that text into Microsoft Translator or another trusted translator.
If the image is messy, crop tightly around the text and improve contrast before running OCR. For private documents, I’d avoid random online image-translation sites, because they often upload the image to their servers. Local OCR plus a trusted translator is the safer workflow.