Image Translation

Japanese to Korean Image Translation

Upload an image — AI recognises the Japanese text and translates it into Korean, preserving the original layout and fonts.

日本語한국어

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JPG, JPEG, PNG, WebP — no per-image size limit

Three steps to a translated image

  1. 01

    Upload Japanese image

    Drop or click to upload — no per-image size limit. All major formats supported.

  2. 02

    Pick Korean as target

    Japanese source language is auto-detected; just pick Korean as the target.

  3. 03

    Download Korean image

    Done in seconds, with background repair, font matching and layout preserved. One-click download.

Translating Japanese images into Korean

Most Japanese text people need translated never arrives as text. It is manga pages, game and app interfaces, product packaging, station signage and store shelf tags — pixels, not characters, so there is nothing to select and nothing to paste into a translator.

Japanese mixes kanji, hiragana and katakana in one line, runs either horizontally or vertically, and adds furigana reading aids above or beside the characters. PicTranslate reads it straight off the image, translates it into Korean, and redraws the result in place, so the layout you were looking at is the layout you get back.

What Japanese → Korean translation has to get right

  • ▸Three scripts interleaved: a single sentence switches between kanji, hiragana and katakana with no separator, and word boundaries have to be inferred.
  • ▸Furigana: the small ruby text above a kanji is a pronunciation guide, not content, and OCR that reads it as a second line produces nonsense.
  • ▸Vertical columns read right to left, so the reading order is the opposite of the visual scan order a Latin-trained model assumes.
  • ▸Spacing carries meaning in Korean: the same letters split differently are different words, so word breaks are not cosmetic.
  • ▸Speech level has to match the context — the register used in a webtoon's dialogue is not the one used on a product label.
  • ▸Expansion: Korean runs roughly 25% longer than Japanese, which is the single most common way a translated image breaks — text is re-fitted to the original box rather than allowed to spill out of it.

Frequently asked questions

How accurate is Japanese to Korean image translation?+

PicTranslate runs on top-tier LLMs (GPT-4o, Claude 3.5) combined with Japanese OCR and Korean context modelling, producing industry-leading accuracy — even on complex layouts and domain-specific terminology.

Does the translated image keep the original layout?+

Yes. The AI detects the Japanese text's position, font and background, then redraws the Korean translation in place — the output image is nearly identical in layout to the original.

What kinds of images does this work for?+

Japanese e-commerce listings, manga panels, technical documents, mobile screenshots, menus and signs — any image containing Japanese text can be translated into Korean.

How long does Japanese → Korean translation take?+

Typically 3-5 seconds per image. Complex layouts or large files may take a little longer. Batch mode processes up to 20 images in parallel.