Image Translation

Learn how to use JigsawStack’s Image Translation API to translate languages in images

Overview

The Image Translation API allows you to extract and translate text from images into any of 100+ supported languages. This powerful tool combines OCR (Optical Character Recognition) with translation capabilities, making it perfect for translating documents, signs, menus, or any image containing text.

• Extract and translate text from images in one API call
• Support for 100+ target languages
• High-quality OCR with accurate text extraction
• Preserves original image layout with translated text
• Multiple output formats (URL, base64, binary)
• Works with various image formats (PNG, JPEG, WebP, etc.)

API Endpoint

POST /v1/ai/translate/image

Quick Start

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"
})

Response Example

{
  "success": true,
  "url": "https://jigsawstack-temp.b1e91a466694ad4af04df5d05ca12d93.r2.cloudflarestorage.com/temp/93653e58-b1fa-4672-a81d-00be1b7ec18e.jpg?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Credential=7b9a19349842b7b1a9e4c2e19f05b232%2F20250903%2Fauto%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20250903T192434Z&X-Amz-Expires=604800&X-Amz-Signature=aed9e0a569eaa75c082410cda3bb643cc80e337cad0cb6dbb358f2526f3cc348&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&x-amz-checksum-mode=ENABLED&x-id=GetObject",
  "_usage": {
        "input_tokens": 56,
        "output_tokens": 186,
        "inference_time_tokens": 24458,
        "total_tokens": 24700
  }
}

Supported Languages

The Translation API supports over 100 languages. Here are some of the most commonly used:

Code	Language	Code	Language	Code	Language
ar	Arabic	fr	French	pt	Portuguese
bn	Bengali	de	German	ru	Russian
zh	Chinese	hi	Hindi	es	Spanish
en	English	ja	Japanese	sw	Swahili
fi	Finnish	ko	Korean	tr	Turkish

For a complete list of supported languages, please visit our Language Codes Reference.

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