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    • Introducing Smartcat's New AI Image Translator

    Smartcat's new Image Translator feature enables you to translate text within images while maintaining formatting and design layout. This tool leverages AI-powered OCR to extract text, seamlessly removes it, translates it, and reinserts the translated text into the original image. You can refine translations with an intuitive editing experience, ensuring high-quality results.

    Best Use Cases

    Smartcat's Image Translation is ideal for all types of images - from brand and marketing images to learning materials, software screenshots, and documents.

    Why Use Image Translation?

    1. Fast & Accurate: Automatically detects and translates text in images.

    2. Maintains Design Integrity: Keeps original background design, original or similar fonts, alignments, and colors.

    3. Flexible Editing: Adjust text position, size, font, and color.

    4. Easy Collaboration: Review and fine-tune AI-generated translations with your team.

    Getting Started with Image Translation

    Click Create New Project

    2. Choose your source and target languages.

    1. Upload Images for Translation - Select one or multiple image files for bulk processing of images ( PNG, JPEG, JPG ). Additionally, Smartcat supports the following formats: BMP, PCX, JP, JPC, JFIF, and GIF (only the first frame for animated GIFs).

    TIP : The better the input quality, the better the output results. Larger image files take longer to process.

    Once uploaded, Smartcat will automatically process the images, extract text, seamlessly remove it from the background, and generate AI-translated text.

    You can disable auto-translation if you prefer to manually translate the text on the image. In this case, Smartcat will process the file and transform the source text into editable text blocks, allowing you to make adjustments directly.

    Once processing is complete, click the Open in Editor button to begin editing.

    You can also go to the "Files" tab and select a specific file or translation to open it.

    3. Open the Editor

    Click on your processed file to open it in the Image Translation Editor, where you can review the translation and fine-tune your translated image:

    New Editing Capabilities

    Preview-First Layout: The translated image preview appears above the text segments for better context. For image files, this is the default layout for your convenience. You may also select the same layout option for other file formats, such as DOCX or PDF.

    Drag & Drop Text Elements: Reposition text boxes using drag-and-drop or arrow keys for pixel-perfect placement.

    Zoom In & Out : Easily adjust zoom levels for precise editing using UI buttons, keyboard shortcuts, mouse scrolling, or touchpad gestures for a seamless experience.

    You can use shortcuts to adjust the zoom level:

    1. On Windows: 1. Keyboard: Ctrl + to zoom in and Ctrl - to zoom out. 1. Keyboard + mouse: Ctrl + mouse scroll up to zoom in and \*\*Ctrl + mouse scroll down\*\* to zoom out.

    2. On Mac: 1. Keyboard: Command + to zoom in and Command - to zoom out. 1. Trackpad: Pinch outward (two fingers spread apart) to zoom in. Pinch inward (two fingers brought together) to zoom out. 1. Mouse + Keyboard: Scroll up while holding the Command key to zoom in. Scroll down while holding the Command key to zoom out.

    Text Customization:

    Select a bounding box and use the UI in the formatting toolbar to change font type, size , color , and alignment. Apply bold, italic, and underline styling.

    Supported Fonts: This list of fonts is subject to change.

    Albert Sans, Antic Didone, Arapey, Cardo, Chivo, Cormorant, DM Sans, Eczar, Fira Sans, Inconsolata, Inter, Lato, Lexend Deca, Libre Bodoni, Libre Franklin, Manrope, Merriweather, Montserrat, Neuton, Noto Sans, Noto Sans Devanagari, Noto Sans Hebrew, Noto Sans Arabic, Noto Nastaliq Urdu, Noto Sans Ethiopic, Noto Sans Georgian, Noto Sans SC, Noto Sans TC, Noto Sans Japanese, Noto Sans Korean, Noto Sans Tamil, Noto Sans Bengali, Noto Sans Kannada, Noto Sans Malayalam, Noto Sans Telugu, Noto Sans Gurmukhi, Nunito Sans, Open Sans, Oswald, Petit Formal Script, Playfair Display, Poppins, Prata, PT Sans, PT Serif, Raleway, Roboto, Roboto Slab, Rubik, Space Grotesk, Space Mono, Source Sans Pro, Source Serif Pro, Syne, Ubuntu, Work Sans.

    Hide translation: You can remove unwanted translated text, such as logos or brand elements, while preserving the original background. Simply select the text and use the Hide button to exclude it from translation.

    Download the Translated Image

    Once satisfied with the edits:

    1. Click Download to export the image in the same format as it was uploaded.

    2. Your translated images are ready to use, preserving original quality and design.