Screen Lingo

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Translate text from any image, screenshot, or video on screen. Select an area, get the translation — no copy-paste needed.



Screen Lingo lets you translate any visible text on your screen — even text you can't select, like subtitles, screenshots, memes, video.

Just press Alt+Z (or click the icon), drag a box around the text, and get a translation in seconds.

✦ How it works
OCR runs locally in your browser using Tesseract.js — your screenshots never leave your device. Only the recognized text is sent to Google Translate for translation.

✦ Supported OCR languages
Armenian · Russian · English · Hindi · Simplified Chinese · Auto (all at once)

✦ 30 translation languages
Russian, English, Armenian, Chinese, Hindi, Spanish, French, Arabic, Japanese, Korean, Turkish, Ukrainian, German, and more.

✦ Privacy-friendly
No account required. No backend server. OCR is fully local. Only the recognized text touches the internet (via Google Translate).

✦ Usage
1. Press Alt+Z or click the extension icon
2. Drag to select any area with text
3. Pick the OCR language (or leave it on Auto)
4. Pick your target language
5. Read the translation in the popup

Works on any regular website tab. Does not work on chrome:// pages (a Chrome limitation).