Google Translate is a great tool to have when you want quick and easy translations that are done on the fly.
While Google’s translation tool is available on both the web and mobile, the latter is far more useful and powerful as it has far more features.
This includes the ability to translate conversations in real time and the ability to detect and translate text from images.
In comparison, the Translate experience on the web is much more “bare” as it is limited to translating text, documents, and websites.
Google is now adding at least one useful feature to the web version, image translation.
Google has announced the availability of this feature to the Translate support community. While it’s already possible to use Google Lens to translate text to images online, it only works with online photos.
There is no way to use Lens to upload images stored locally on the computer and translate the text they contain. This is changing. The next time you go to Google Translate for web, you’ll see the new “Images” option.
Click on it and then select the image you want to translate. Surprisingly, there’s no drag-and-drop support, so you can’t drag images directly into the browser window for translation. Once the image is uploaded, you can select the language you want to convert the text it contains. It is also possible to copy or download the translated text to the computer.
You can see the original and the translated text side by side. While this is all well and good, the image translation process on the web remains inferior to the mobile app.
Because in the second case there is the possibility of selecting part of the text and listening to the translation. These features are absent from the web version.
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