Overlayn — translate the text inside an image

Overlayn · DeparturesBoard clear

The words in a chart or a screenshot are pixels, not text. Overlayn prints the translation back in the same place.

The words in a chart, a diagram or a screenshot are pixels, not text. Overlayn lifts them off the picture and prints the translation back in the same place — same size, same colour, same position.

or drop one on the plate — Ctrl+V pastes a screenshot

PNG · JPEG · WEBP — up to 50 at once

Destinationspick one or more00/20

Tick a language to send it there

FromDetected

Pages00/50

Languages00/20

Waiting for an image

No account needed to load a file — you sign in at the moment the run would cost credits.

New accounts start with 30 credits.

The gap

A normal translator skips the words inside a picture. Overlayn finds them, reads them, and draws the translation back in the same place.

A normal translator reads the text layer of a file and skips whatever lives inside a picture. Diagram labels, chart axes, screenshots and scanned pages are pixels, not characters, so they come back untouched. Overlayn takes exactly that part: it finds the words, reads them, lifts them off, and draws the translation back at the same size, in the same colour, in the same place.

DemonstrationThe file as it arrived~5.5 s, once per image

A chart whose labels are pixels rather than text

source
detect
read
clean
render

Draw it inReading

The first pick pays for reading the image. Every pick after it costs 0.13 s.

Every frame above is a real image file, not a drawing in the page. The bars and the axis numbers never change — only the words do. The chart itself is demonstration data.

What arrives

Photographed, captured, scanned or exported — if a translator would skip the words in it, this is the tool.

It does not matter how the picture was made — photographed, captured, scanned or exported. If a translator would skip the words in it, this is the tool for them.

What counts as an imagePNG · JPEG · WEBP

Photograph
A picture taken on a phone. The words are part of the scene.
Photo: Kaidai, CC BY-SA 3.0
Screenshot
A product screen captured for a ticket, a guide or a report.
Demonstration file
Scanned figure
A manual page whose callouts and captions are ink, not text.
Demonstration file
Already multilingual
Three languages printed on one board — and still unsearchable.
Photo: M. Ślusarczyk, CC BY 3.0

The habit

The picture is already on your clipboard. Paste, take the languages you need, download — and every run waits on your board.

The picture you need translated is already on your clipboard, and it will be again tomorrow. Paste it here, take the languages you need, and the file is in your downloads before the tab you copied it from has finished loading — with every run still waiting on your board when you come back.

Your routineThree steps, seconds each

01Ctrl+VPaste it
A screenshot on your clipboard lands on the plate from anywhere on this page — no dialog, no upload button. Try it now, the board is already listening.
0220Pick where it goes
Reading the picture happens once, whatever you asked for. The tenth language costs about a second more than the first, so you take all of them.
03∞It stays on your board
Every run waits under Documents. Re-download any language, fix a word by hand, and the redraw costs no credits at all.

Keep it one keystroke awayKeep the tab — Ctrl+D bookmarks it

Honest state

Partial failures, regions flagged for review, and credits held rather than spent are all shown as they are.

Partial failure, regions flagged for review, and credits held rather than spent are all shown as they are. You should never have to guess what a run actually cost you.

Service notes

01Bulk in one go: Up to 50 images in one document and up to 20 target languages per run. Reading each image happens once, however many languages you asked for.
02Edit what came back: Every text area is editable after the run: rewrite a line, hide it, or move and resize its box. The redraw takes about 0.04 s because no model is called again.
03Text that no longer fits: A longer translation is re-broken, then shortened, then stepped down in size to a floor. Past that floor the area is flagged so you can decide, instead of silently shrinking to nothing.
04Partial failure costs nothing: If one image fails, the rest still finish. The document is marked partial and only the pages that actually worked are charged.
05Credits held, then settled: The ceiling price is held when a run starts and the difference comes back when it finishes. A failed run releases the whole hold.
06Take the files with you: One image as a PNG, or the whole document as a ZIP — one folder per language when there is more than one, flat when there is only one.

One image as a PNG, or the whole document as a ZIP — a folder per language. A short detour inside a bigger job.

One image as a PNG, or the whole document as a ZIP — a folder per language when you asked for more than one. Overlayn is a detour inside a bigger job, and it is built to be a short one.

Photo: Secaucus Junction, 4300streetcar, CC BY 4.0

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