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Lucianvz
Brass Contributor
Jul 08, 2026

What is the best screenshot translator for pc?

I often need to translate text from screenshots on my PC, especially images containing foreign languages. I'm looking for a tool that can recognize text from screenshots accurately and provide a quic...
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Jadeookb
Iron Contributor
Jul 08, 2026

Capture2Text. It lets you OCR any portion of your screen with a keyboard shortcut — the text gets pulled out and copied to your clipboard automatically. By default it ships with English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and Spanish, and supports 90+ languages total if you install additional language packs.

How to use it

Step 1: Unzip the download and double-click this free screenshot translator . It runs from the system tray. SourceForge

Step 2: Position your mouse at the top-left corner of the text you want to OCR, then press the hotkey (default Windows Key + Q) to start capture. 

Step 3: Drag to resize the capture box over the text (hold right-click to move the whole box), then press the hotkey again, left-click, or hit Enter to complete the capture. 

Step 4: The result is copied to your clipboard, and a popup shows the captured text.

It's not just OCR screen translator. You can enable translation via Settings → Translate tab, choosing to append the translation to the clipboard and/or show it in the popup alongside the original text. Each installed OCR language can be mapped to a different translation language, though this requires internet access and some OCR languages don't support translation.