Source languages

What changes in each writing system

Vertical Japanese, Chinese without word spaces, hangul in blocks, decorative Cyrillic. Why some recognize better than others.

• Translate Japanese straight off the screen

  Games, manga, manuals, legacy spreadsheets. Japanese breaks automatic recognition more than any other language — and you can tell in advance when it will work.

• Translate Chinese straight off the screen

  Scientific papers, industrial manuals, system panels, online stores. Chinese usually recognizes well — the errors come from two specific places.

• Translate Korean straight off the screen

  Games, webtoons, social posts, online stores. Hangul is the easiest of the three Asian systems — and it still has two traps.

• Translate Russian straight off the screen

  Unlocalized games, industrial software, technical documentation, forums. Cyrillic is easy to recognize — the font is usually the problem.