From Image to Word: The Complete Guide to Translating Pictures into Text

Have you ever snapped a photo of a street sign in a foreign country, a menu in an unfamiliar script, or a physical document you need to edit, only to realize you have to type it all out manually character by character?

Fortunately, those days of tedious transcription are long gone. Thanks to massive advancements in Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and Neural Machine Translation (NMT), converting foreign or printed text trapped inside an image into editable, translated words is now instantaneous.