Translate French image to English
Photograph or upload anything written in French (bistro chalkboards, museum captions, pharmacy labels, rental contracts, road signs) and read it in English, line by line.
Point at the text
Snap a photo, upload a screenshot, or paste an image (Ctrl/⌘ + V).
Reading French from a photo
French is written in Latin alphabet with accents (é, è, ç, à). PointTranslate reads it with a vision model that sees the whole image at once, so it keeps lines and blocks together and translates them in context rather than character by character.
Tips for French photos
- Handwritten chalkboard menus translate well if the board fills most of the photo.
- Pharmacy and medicine labels: use the translation to understand, then confirm the dose with a pharmacist.
- Québec French signs (Arrêt, stationnement) are recognised the same as European French.
Translating a restaurant menu? The menu translator explains each dish, not just its name. Got a French PDF or Word file? Use the PDF or document translator.
Questions
How do I translate a French image to English?
Take or upload a photo above. The source is preset to French and the target to your browser's language (English by default). Every block of French text is read, translated and pinned to where it appears on the image.
Can it read French handwriting?
Neat handwriting usually works. Very cursive or stylised writing may come back partly empty, because the model skips text it cannot read reliably instead of guessing.
Does it work on French screenshots?
Yes, and screenshots are the easiest case because the text is perfectly sharp. On a computer you can paste a screenshot straight into the page with Ctrl or Cmd + V.
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