How to translate an image to Chinese and get text you can edit

Which images people translate into Chinese

Usually a page someone photographed for a Chinese-speaking reader. A school notice for parents who read Chinese. Discharge instructions for a parent visiting from Guangzhou. A product sheet, a flyer or a slide for a partner in Taipei. A screenshot of an email that a relative needs to understand.

The reader wants Chinese text they can read on their phone, print, or search, not English with characters stamped over it. LoreAI returns the translation as a Word document.

How to translate an English photo to Chinese with LoreAI

1. Save the image as JPG, PNG or PDF. A phone photo, a screenshot or a scan all work. Put several pages into one PDF to get one file back.
2. Type your email at the top of this page. The 6-digit code we send opens LoreAI with Chinese already chosen. Your first document is free, up to 3 pages and 3 MB.
3. Pick simplified or traditional. Chinese (Simplified) is preset. Switch to Chinese (Traditional) for readers in Taiwan, Hong Kong or Macau.
4. Download the Word file. Headings, lists and tables come back in the order of the photo, as Chinese characters you can select and edit.

Simplified or traditional characters?

Mainland China

Simplified

Singapore and Malaysia

Simplified

Taiwan

Traditional

Hong Kong and Macau

Traditional

The two scripts differ in many characters and in some everyday words, so a file in the wrong one looks foreign to its reader. The English to Chinese PDF guide shows the word choices side by side.

What the Chinese Word file looks like

Punctuation

Full-width Chinese marks such as ，and 。 instead of the English comma and period

Personal names

English names stay in Latin letters, as on the passport

Numbers and times

Phone numbers, amounts and times such as 9:30 AM are kept as written

Tables

A timetable or a price list comes back as a Word table with the same rows

Chinese writes dates year first. Where a reader could take 04/05/2026 as 4 May, add the year-first form, 2026年4月5日, after it.

Free ways to translate a picture into Chinese

On a computer, Google Translate's Images tab lets you pick the language, upload a picture, then copy the translated text or download the translated image[1]. On a phone, Google Lens translates signs, menus and handwriting through the camera in over 100 languages[2]. Both suit a sign, a label or a chat. For a full page with tables, a translated picture is hard to correct and to reprint, and a Word file is easier.

The other direction, Chinese to English

For a Chinese certificate, letter or screenshot into English, see translate a Chinese image to English. To copy Chinese text out of a picture without translating it, use Chinese OCR. For Spanish or Arabic targets, the Spanish and Arabic image pages work the same way.

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