Translate pages and images

Yandex Browser for Mobile automatically detects the language of a loaded page. It can translate the page into English or another language of your choice. The built-in translator can also recognize text in images and show the translation on top of the original text.

Translate pages, words, and phrases

To translate a page from another language into English, tap the icon on the page or:

Tap in the browser (if you don't see the icon, press the menu button on your smartphone).
Tap Translate page.

You can monitor the progress in the translation bar at the top of the screen. If you want to stop the translation, tap at the top right.

To go back to the page in the original language:

Tap on the right of the translation bar.

Tap in the browser (if you don't see the icon, press the menu button on your smartphone).
Choose Show original.

The browser translates individual words and sentences into Russian. To see the translation of a word or phrase, select it on the page. The translation bar appears at the top of the screen.

To see all translations of a word or phrase:

Select them in the text.
Tap → Yandex Translate in the translation bar.

Translate images

Tap and hold the image.
In the context menu, select Translate text in image.

The translation appears on top of the original image.

To see the original image:

Tap and hold the image.
In the context menu, select Show original image.

If Automatic image translation is enabled in the settings, you can simply translate the page.
If Automatic image translation is disabled, tap on the translation panel at the top of the screen.

To see the original text in images, tap . To see the page and the images in their original language, tap on the translation bar.

Note. You can also translate images that are not part of a page. For example, you want to wish a Merry Christmas to your British friend. You can do a search and find lots of greeting cards. But if your English isn't good enough, you can't be sure that the greeting and the recipient's name are correct. To be on the safe side, use Yandex Images.

Change the translation language

Follow these steps to translate a page to the language of your choice:

Translate the page into English the easiest way for you.
In the translation bar at the top of the page, select a language from the list.

Note. If automatic image translation is enabled in the settings, images are also translated into the new target language. If automatic image translation is disabled, tap

on the translation bar at the top of the screen to translate images into the new target language.

Translation settings

Translate pages automatically

If you want the browser to translate pages automatically when you open them:

Tap in the browser (if you don't see the icon, press the menu button on your smartphone).
Tap Settings → Yandex Translate.
Enable Automatic page translation.

Disable automatic page translation

Tap in the browser (if you don't see the icon, press the menu button on your smartphone).
Tap Settings → Yandex Translate.
Disable Automatic page translation.

Enable automatic image translation

If you want the browser to translate images automatically along with the page:

Tap in the browser (if you don't see the icon, press the menu button on your smartphone).
Tap Settings → Yandex Translate.
Enable Automatic image translation.

Disable automatic image translation

If you don't want the browser to translate images automatically when translating a page:

Tap in the browser (if you don't see the icon, press the menu button on your smartphone).
Tap Settings → Yandex Translate.
Disable Automatic image translation.

Disable translation

Tap in the browser (if you don't see the icon, press the menu button on your smartphone).
Tap Settings → Yandex Translate.
Disable Offer to translate pages.

Tap in the browser (if you don't see the icon, press the menu button on your smartphone).
Tap Settings → Yandex Translate.
Disable Translate words and phrases.

Problems with translation

The translator isn't working

The translator is enabled in the browser by default. Make sure that you have not turned off the translator manually:

Tap in the browser (if you don't see the icon, press the menu button on your smartphone).
Tap Settings → Yandex Translate.
Make sure that the following options are enabled:
- Offer to translate pages.
- Automatic page translation (you don't need to request translation: pages are automatically translated into the interface language).
- Automatic image translation (text in images is also translated along with the entire page).
- Translate words and phrases.

An image isn't translated

Image text can't be translated if:

The image isn't clear enough.
The text is handwritten or cursive.
The image is too small.

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