Image Translate

Extract and translate text from images into multiple languages.

POST /v1/ai/translate/image

Javascript

import { JigsawStack } from "jigsawstack";

const jigsaw = JigsawStack({ apiKey: "your-api-key" });

const response = await jigsaw.translate.image({
  "url": "https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1528716321680-815a8cdb8cbe?q=80&w=1376&auto=format&fit=crop&ixlib=rb-4.1.0&ixid=M3wxMjA3fDB8MHxwaG90by1wYWdlfHx8fGVufDB8fHx8fA%3D%3D",
  "target_language": "hi",
  "return_type": "url"
})

from jigsawstack import JigsawStack

jigsaw = JigsawStack(api_key="your-api-key")

response = jigsaw.translate.image({
  "url": "https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1528716321680-815a8cdb8cbe?q=80&w=1376&auto=format&fit=crop&ixlib=rb-4.1.0&ixid=M3wxMjA3fDB8MHxwaG90by1wYWdlfHx8fGVufDB8fHx8fA%3D%3D",
  "target_language": "hi",
  "return_type": "url"
})

curl https://api.jigsawstack.com/v1/ai/translate/image \
-X POST \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-H 'x-api-key: your-api-key' \
-d '{"url":"https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1528716321680-815a8cdb8cbe?q=80&w=1376&auto=format&fit=crop&ixlib=rb-4.1.0&ixid=M3wxMjA3fDB8MHxwaG90by1wYWdlfHx8fGVufDB8fHx8fA%3D%3D","target_language":"hi","return_type":"url"}'

<?php
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://api.jigsawstack.com/v1/ai/translate/image');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'POST');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, [
'Content-Type: application/json',
'x-api-key: your-api-key',
]);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, '{"url":"https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1528716321680-815a8cdb8cbe?q=80&w=1376&auto=format&fit=crop&ixlib=rb-4.1.0&ixid=M3wxMjA3fDB8MHxwaG90by1wYWdlfHx8fGVufDB8fHx8fA%3D%3D","target_language":"hi","return_type":"url"}');

$response = curl_exec($ch);

curl_close($ch);

require 'net/http'
require 'json'

uri = URI('https://api.jigsawstack.com/v1/ai/translate/image')
req = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri)
req.content_type = 'application/json'
req['x-api-key'] = 'your-api-key'

req.body = {
'url' => 'https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1528716321680-815a8cdb8cbe?q=80&w=1376&auto=format&fit=crop&ixlib=rb-4.1.0&ixid=M3wxMjA3fDB8MHxwaG90by1wYWdlfHx8fGVufDB8fHx8fA%3D%3D',
'target_language' => 'hi',
'return_type' => 'url'
}.to_json

req_options = {
use_ssl: uri.scheme == 'https'
}
res = Net::HTTP.start(uri.hostname, uri.port, req_options) do |http|
http.request(req)
end

package main

import (
"fmt"
"io"
"log"
"net/http"
"strings"
)

func main() {
client := &http.Client{}
var data = strings.NewReader(`{"url":"https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1528716321680-815a8cdb8cbe?q=80&w=1376&auto=format&fit=crop&ixlib=rb-4.1.0&ixid=M3wxMjA3fDB8MHxwaG90by1wYWdlfHx8fGVufDB8fHx8fA%3D%3D","target_language":"hi","return_type":"url"}`)
req, err := http.NewRequest("POST", "https://api.jigsawstack.com/v1/ai/translate/image", data)
if err != nil {
	log.Fatal(err)
}
req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
req.Header.Set("x-api-key", "your-api-key")
resp, err := client.Do(req)
if err != nil {
	log.Fatal(err)
}
defer resp.Body.Close()
bodyText, err := io.ReadAll(resp.Body)
if err != nil {
	log.Fatal(err)
}
fmt.Printf("%s\n", bodyText)
}

import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.URI;
import java.net.http.HttpClient;
import java.net.http.HttpRequest;
import java.net.http.HttpRequest.BodyPublishers;
import java.net.http.HttpResponse;

HttpClient client = HttpClient.newHttpClient();

HttpRequest request = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
.uri(URI.create("https://api.jigsawstack.com/v1/ai/translate/image"))
.POST(BodyPublishers.ofString("{\"url\":\"https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1528716321680-815a8cdb8cbe?q=80&w=1376&auto=format&fit=crop&ixlib=rb-4.1.0&ixid=M3wxMjA3fDB8MHxwaG90by1wYWdlfHx8fGVufDB8fHx8fA%3D%3D\",\"target_language\":\"hi\",\"return_type\":\"url\"}"))
.setHeader("Content-Type", "application/json")
.setHeader("x-api-key", "your-api-key")
.build();

HttpResponse<String> response = client.send(request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());

import Foundation

let jsonData = [
"url": "https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1528716321680-815a8cdb8cbe?q=80&w=1376&auto=format&fit=crop&ixlib=rb-4.1.0&ixid=M3wxMjA3fDB8MHxwaG90by1wYWdlfHx8fGVufDB8fHx8fA%3D%3D",
"target_language": "hi",
"return_type": "url"
] as [String : Any]
let data = try! JSONSerialization.data(withJSONObject: jsonData, options: [])

let url = URL(string: "https://api.jigsawstack.com/v1/ai/translate/image")!
let headers = [
"Content-Type": "application/json",
"x-api-key": "your-api-key"
]

var request = URLRequest(url: url)
request.httpMethod = "POST"
request.allHTTPHeaderFields = headers
request.httpBody = data as Data

let task = URLSession.shared.dataTask(with: request) { (data, response, error) in
if let error = error {
    print(error)
} else if let data = data {
    let str = String(data: data, encoding: .utf8)
    print(str ?? "")
}
}

task.resume()

import 'package:http/http.dart' as http;

void main() async {
final headers = {
'Content-Type': 'application/json',
'x-api-key': 'your-api-key',
};

final data = '{"url":"https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1528716321680-815a8cdb8cbe?q=80&w=1376&auto=format&fit=crop&ixlib=rb-4.1.0&ixid=M3wxMjA3fDB8MHxwaG90by1wYWdlfHx8fGVufDB8fHx8fA%3D%3D","target_language":"hi","return_type":"url"}';

final url = Uri.parse('https://api.jigsawstack.com/v1/ai/translate/image');

final res = await http.post(url, headers: headers, body: data);
final status = res.statusCode;
if (status != 200) throw Exception('http.post error: statusCode= $status');

print(res.body);
}

import java.io.IOException
import okhttp3.MediaType.Companion.toMediaType
import okhttp3.OkHttpClient
import okhttp3.Request
import okhttp3.RequestBody.Companion.toRequestBody

val client = OkHttpClient()

val MEDIA_TYPE = "application/json".toMediaType()

val requestBody = "{\"url\":\"https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1528716321680-815a8cdb8cbe?q=80&w=1376&auto=format&fit=crop&ixlib=rb-4.1.0&ixid=M3wxMjA3fDB8MHxwaG90by1wYWdlfHx8fGVufDB8fHx8fA%3D%3D\",\"target_language\":\"hi\",\"return_type\":\"url\"}"

val request = Request.Builder()
.url("https://api.jigsawstack.com/v1/ai/translate/image")
.post(requestBody.toRequestBody(MEDIA_TYPE))
.header("Content-Type", "application/json")
.header("x-api-key", "your-api-key")
.build()

client.newCall(request).execute().use { response ->
if (!response.isSuccessful) throw IOException("Unexpected code $response")
response.body!!.string()
}

using System.Net.Http.Headers;
using System.Net.Http.Json;

HttpClient client = new HttpClient();

HttpRequestMessage request = new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.Post, "https://api.jigsawstack.com/v1/ai/translate/image");
request.Headers.Add("x-api-key", "your-api-key");
request.Content = JsonContent.Create(new
{
url = "https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1528716321680-815a8cdb8cbe?q=80&w=1376&auto=format&fit=crop&ixlib=rb-4.1.0&ixid=M3wxMjA3fDB8MHxwaG90by1wYWdlfHx8fGVufDB8fHx8fA%3D%3D",
target_language = "hi",
return_type = "url"
});
request.Content.Headers.ContentType = new MediaTypeHeaderValue("application/json");

HttpResponseMessage response = await client.SendAsync(request);
response.EnsureSuccessStatusCode();
string responseBody = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();

Console.WriteLine(responseBody);

Response

{
  "success": true,
  "url": "https://jigsawstack-temp.b1e91a466694ad4af04df5d05ca12d93.r2.cloudflarestorage.com/temp/283702e7-50be-4ad8-b685-97b5c5ba135f.jpg?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Credential=7b9a19349842b7b1a9e4c2e19f05b232%2F20250916%2Fauto%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20250916T185147Z&X-Amz-Expires=604800&X-Amz-Signature=068cf856f26a53b43c6f7b4421987890e407520f8bdea18d27877cf6d47c8a13&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&x-amz-checksum-mode=ENABLED&x-id=GetObject",
  "_usage": {
        "input_tokens": 56,
        "output_tokens": 192,
        "inference_time_tokens": 24579,
        "total_tokens": 24827
  }
}

Request Parameters

Body

url · string

The image url.

file_store_key · string

The key used to store the image on Jigsawstack file. Learn more about how to handle files in Jigsawstack’s Handling Files section.

target_language · string · required

The language code of the target language to translate to. All supported language codes can be found here.

return_type · string

The specified return type for the response

• url
• base64
• binary

Response Structure

The response format depends on the return_type parameter:

URL Response

return_type: “url” or “base64”

success · boolean

Indicates whether the call was successful.

_usage · object

Usage information for the API call.

Show _usage

input_tokens · number

Number of input tokens processed.

output_tokens · number

Number of output tokens generated.

inference_time_tokens · number

Number of tokens processed during inference time.

total_tokens · number

Total number of tokens used (input + output).

log_id · string

A unique identifier for the request

url · string

The URL of the generated file (image or PDF) that can be accessed directly.

Binary Response

return_type: “binary”

The API returns the generated file (image or PDF) directly in the response body as binary data.

Javascript

import { JigsawStack } from "jigsawstack";

const jigsaw = JigsawStack({ apiKey: "your-api-key" });

const response = await jigsaw.translate.image({
  "url": "https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1528716321680-815a8cdb8cbe?q=80&w=1376&auto=format&fit=crop&ixlib=rb-4.1.0&ixid=M3wxMjA3fDB8MHxwaG90by1wYWdlfHx8fGVufDB8fHx8fA%3D%3D",
  "target_language": "hi",
  "return_type": "url"
})

from jigsawstack import JigsawStack

jigsaw = JigsawStack(api_key="your-api-key")

response = jigsaw.translate.image({
  "url": "https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1528716321680-815a8cdb8cbe?q=80&w=1376&auto=format&fit=crop&ixlib=rb-4.1.0&ixid=M3wxMjA3fDB8MHxwaG90by1wYWdlfHx8fGVufDB8fHx8fA%3D%3D",
  "target_language": "hi",
  "return_type": "url"
})

curl https://api.jigsawstack.com/v1/ai/translate/image \
-X POST \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-H 'x-api-key: your-api-key' \
-d '{"url":"https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1528716321680-815a8cdb8cbe?q=80&w=1376&auto=format&fit=crop&ixlib=rb-4.1.0&ixid=M3wxMjA3fDB8MHxwaG90by1wYWdlfHx8fGVufDB8fHx8fA%3D%3D","target_language":"hi","return_type":"url"}'

<?php
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://api.jigsawstack.com/v1/ai/translate/image');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'POST');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, [
'Content-Type: application/json',
'x-api-key: your-api-key',
]);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, '{"url":"https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1528716321680-815a8cdb8cbe?q=80&w=1376&auto=format&fit=crop&ixlib=rb-4.1.0&ixid=M3wxMjA3fDB8MHxwaG90by1wYWdlfHx8fGVufDB8fHx8fA%3D%3D","target_language":"hi","return_type":"url"}');

$response = curl_exec($ch);

curl_close($ch);

require 'net/http'
require 'json'

uri = URI('https://api.jigsawstack.com/v1/ai/translate/image')
req = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri)
req.content_type = 'application/json'
req['x-api-key'] = 'your-api-key'

req.body = {
'url' => 'https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1528716321680-815a8cdb8cbe?q=80&w=1376&auto=format&fit=crop&ixlib=rb-4.1.0&ixid=M3wxMjA3fDB8MHxwaG90by1wYWdlfHx8fGVufDB8fHx8fA%3D%3D',
'target_language' => 'hi',
'return_type' => 'url'
}.to_json

req_options = {
use_ssl: uri.scheme == 'https'
}
res = Net::HTTP.start(uri.hostname, uri.port, req_options) do |http|
http.request(req)
end

package main

import (
"fmt"
"io"
"log"
"net/http"
"strings"
)

func main() {
client := &http.Client{}
var data = strings.NewReader(`{"url":"https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1528716321680-815a8cdb8cbe?q=80&w=1376&auto=format&fit=crop&ixlib=rb-4.1.0&ixid=M3wxMjA3fDB8MHxwaG90by1wYWdlfHx8fGVufDB8fHx8fA%3D%3D","target_language":"hi","return_type":"url"}`)
req, err := http.NewRequest("POST", "https://api.jigsawstack.com/v1/ai/translate/image", data)
if err != nil {
	log.Fatal(err)
}
req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
req.Header.Set("x-api-key", "your-api-key")
resp, err := client.Do(req)
if err != nil {
	log.Fatal(err)
}
defer resp.Body.Close()
bodyText, err := io.ReadAll(resp.Body)
if err != nil {
	log.Fatal(err)
}
fmt.Printf("%s\n", bodyText)
}

import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.URI;
import java.net.http.HttpClient;
import java.net.http.HttpRequest;
import java.net.http.HttpRequest.BodyPublishers;
import java.net.http.HttpResponse;

HttpClient client = HttpClient.newHttpClient();

HttpRequest request = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
.uri(URI.create("https://api.jigsawstack.com/v1/ai/translate/image"))
.POST(BodyPublishers.ofString("{\"url\":\"https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1528716321680-815a8cdb8cbe?q=80&w=1376&auto=format&fit=crop&ixlib=rb-4.1.0&ixid=M3wxMjA3fDB8MHxwaG90by1wYWdlfHx8fGVufDB8fHx8fA%3D%3D\",\"target_language\":\"hi\",\"return_type\":\"url\"}"))
.setHeader("Content-Type", "application/json")
.setHeader("x-api-key", "your-api-key")
.build();

HttpResponse<String> response = client.send(request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());

import Foundation

let jsonData = [
"url": "https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1528716321680-815a8cdb8cbe?q=80&w=1376&auto=format&fit=crop&ixlib=rb-4.1.0&ixid=M3wxMjA3fDB8MHxwaG90by1wYWdlfHx8fGVufDB8fHx8fA%3D%3D",
"target_language": "hi",
"return_type": "url"
] as [String : Any]
let data = try! JSONSerialization.data(withJSONObject: jsonData, options: [])

let url = URL(string: "https://api.jigsawstack.com/v1/ai/translate/image")!
let headers = [
"Content-Type": "application/json",
"x-api-key": "your-api-key"
]

var request = URLRequest(url: url)
request.httpMethod = "POST"
request.allHTTPHeaderFields = headers
request.httpBody = data as Data

let task = URLSession.shared.dataTask(with: request) { (data, response, error) in
if let error = error {
    print(error)
} else if let data = data {
    let str = String(data: data, encoding: .utf8)
    print(str ?? "")
}
}

task.resume()

import 'package:http/http.dart' as http;

void main() async {
final headers = {
'Content-Type': 'application/json',
'x-api-key': 'your-api-key',
};

final data = '{"url":"https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1528716321680-815a8cdb8cbe?q=80&w=1376&auto=format&fit=crop&ixlib=rb-4.1.0&ixid=M3wxMjA3fDB8MHxwaG90by1wYWdlfHx8fGVufDB8fHx8fA%3D%3D","target_language":"hi","return_type":"url"}';

final url = Uri.parse('https://api.jigsawstack.com/v1/ai/translate/image');

final res = await http.post(url, headers: headers, body: data);
final status = res.statusCode;
if (status != 200) throw Exception('http.post error: statusCode= $status');

print(res.body);
}

import java.io.IOException
import okhttp3.MediaType.Companion.toMediaType
import okhttp3.OkHttpClient
import okhttp3.Request
import okhttp3.RequestBody.Companion.toRequestBody

val client = OkHttpClient()

val MEDIA_TYPE = "application/json".toMediaType()

val requestBody = "{\"url\":\"https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1528716321680-815a8cdb8cbe?q=80&w=1376&auto=format&fit=crop&ixlib=rb-4.1.0&ixid=M3wxMjA3fDB8MHxwaG90by1wYWdlfHx8fGVufDB8fHx8fA%3D%3D\",\"target_language\":\"hi\",\"return_type\":\"url\"}"

val request = Request.Builder()
.url("https://api.jigsawstack.com/v1/ai/translate/image")
.post(requestBody.toRequestBody(MEDIA_TYPE))
.header("Content-Type", "application/json")
.header("x-api-key", "your-api-key")
.build()

client.newCall(request).execute().use { response ->
if (!response.isSuccessful) throw IOException("Unexpected code $response")
response.body!!.string()
}

using System.Net.Http.Headers;
using System.Net.Http.Json;

HttpClient client = new HttpClient();

HttpRequestMessage request = new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.Post, "https://api.jigsawstack.com/v1/ai/translate/image");
request.Headers.Add("x-api-key", "your-api-key");
request.Content = JsonContent.Create(new
{
url = "https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1528716321680-815a8cdb8cbe?q=80&w=1376&auto=format&fit=crop&ixlib=rb-4.1.0&ixid=M3wxMjA3fDB8MHxwaG90by1wYWdlfHx8fGVufDB8fHx8fA%3D%3D",
target_language = "hi",
return_type = "url"
});
request.Content.Headers.ContentType = new MediaTypeHeaderValue("application/json");

HttpResponseMessage response = await client.SendAsync(request);
response.EnsureSuccessStatusCode();
string responseBody = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();

Console.WriteLine(responseBody);

Response

{
  "success": true,
  "url": "https://jigsawstack-temp.b1e91a466694ad4af04df5d05ca12d93.r2.cloudflarestorage.com/temp/283702e7-50be-4ad8-b685-97b5c5ba135f.jpg?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Credential=7b9a19349842b7b1a9e4c2e19f05b232%2F20250916%2Fauto%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20250916T185147Z&X-Amz-Expires=604800&X-Amz-Signature=068cf856f26a53b43c6f7b4421987890e407520f8bdea18d27877cf6d47c8a13&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&x-amz-checksum-mode=ENABLED&x-id=GetObject",
  "_usage": {
        "input_tokens": 56,
        "output_tokens": 192,
        "inference_time_tokens": 24579,
        "total_tokens": 24827
  }
}