How to translate a manga page in Chrome
Copying text out of a comic doesn't work: the words are part of the picture. To read a page you can't read yet, you need a tool that looks at the image itself. Here's how to do it in Chrome with Yakumi, without leaving the page.
1. Add Yakumi to Chrome
Install it from the Chrome Web Store. There's nothing to set up, and your first 20 pages work without an account.
2. Pick the language you want to read in
Open the Yakumi menu from the toolbar and choose English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese or Traditional Chinese.
3. Translate the page
Hover over a comic image and press Translate, or right-click the image and choose Translate this image. The translation is drawn over the original, inside the speech bubbles. Turn on Auto if you want each image translated as you scroll.
4. Compare with the original
Press Show original any time to see the artwork as it was drawn.
What gets translated
- Speech bubbles and narration boxes
- Sound effects drawn into the art
- Printed text like signs, newspapers and posters
How pages are counted
One image is one page. A very tall webtoon image counts 1 page for every 3,000 px of height. A translation that fails doesn't use any pages, and re-opening a page you translated in the last 7 days on the same browser is free.
A note on official releases
Machine translation helps you follow a story you can't read yet. When an official translation exists, please support it.