How to OCR and Translate Spanish Text Images for Free
Image OCR stands out for “Image Optical Character Recognition” which is one of the coolest technologies that we can use for getting text place inside images into written text, so we can later copy and paste the text for further analysis and translation.
The Spanish language is one of the most widely used in the entire world today, and it’s originally created in Spain (España) which is one of the Europe Union countries and was extended to the majority of countries in South America as well as some of the middle of America.
There are free software choices available for OCR, which can help us improve productivity in our jobs if we have to constantly translate texts and it will help you save good amounts of time while not spending a dime on it.
EasyScreenOCR Online for Spanish OCR
You can do Spanish OCR online free on this webpage anytime you want, anywhere you go, for free! Not only that but you can choose from a variety of interesting languages such as French, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Korean and Tamil among many others.
The way you use this site is very simple: You click on the “Drop files here or click to upload” to place the image you want to translate, and you will receive a zip file download in a few seconds once your request gets processed. You will need a file extract program such as WinZip or WinRar to extract the file inside of it. Once you have it extracted you will now have a .txt or usually called a text file which you can open with any text editor and find the original image text finally shown on plain text.
Another website we recommend for the same purpose: i2ocr
The way you use it is selecting the language on the text on the image you want to translate, then you can choose a file or a URL (a link) in case you have previously uploaded the image with some screenshot program you can use for OCR such as Gyazo. It will also ask you to check a box in order to know that you aren’t a robot, to prove you are human. Once you have done the 3 steps before you can now click the “extract” red sign and after waiting for a moment, it will let you download the image or translate with Google Translator or Bing Microsoft Translator. This webpage is honestly so easy and effective to use that I can barely think of any con but in some cases, it has given me wrong readings, which is expected anyways because there are so many existing text fonts that it can be hard to translate some of them by the OCR technology.
Translator links here: https://translate.google.com/?hl=en / https://www.bing.com/translator
Spanish Image OCR and Translation on Windows and Mac
So far we have shown online methods to use Spanish OCR for free, but there is some software available for offline translation as well. You can use Easy Screen OCR for Spanish OCR and screenshot OCR offline. It’s super simple to use and works for both Windows and MAC computers.
It also allows for an offline translation, but be aware that if you want to unlock the program completely you will need to pay for the full version.
You can download this software here: https://easyscreenocr.com/
Once you have the text file opened you can go ahead and copy and paste that text into any of the multiple free translators website available. One of the most used ones is Google Translator. simply because it works great and it’s very easy to use, but if that one is not working good you can try many others such some others like Bing Translator or Translator.eu and most likely one of these three will provide you a good translation. Try Translator.eu here: https://www.translator.eu/
Conclusion
In conclusion, OCR technology is one of the most useful things if you work with multiple languages in your daily job or if you are learning languages on your free time, for example. It’s a known thing that OCR helps many historians that deal with old documents often for instance. It’s not a perfect thing by any means but it has pretty amazing results sometimes which can be really surprising.
