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What's the best image translator available on Windows 11?
Been working with a lot of images lately that contain text in foreign languages — product labels, scanned documents, screenshots from foreign websites — and manually typing everything out to translat...
For privacy, I’d start with tools already built into the Microsoft side of things where possible. Snipping Tool text actions, OneNote OCR, and Microsoft Translator can all help depending on your Windows/app version.
For sensitive images, be careful with random web-based translator sites because many of them upload the image for processing. I’d test a few non-confidential images first and compare results. Busy backgrounds and stylized fonts are hard for any OCR tool, so cropping tightly around the text usually improves accuracy a lot.