Chinese text with Jyutping or pinyin aligned to every character

Paste Cantonese or Mandarin — or a photo of it — and get a formatted study sheet with translation, ready to download as PDF, DOCX, or Markdown.

A Jyutping converter, then a translator, then Word, then a fight with tables. Do it once here — romanize, translate, align, export.

Input Text

Images are OCR'd on our servers; not sent externally unless fallback translation is used. Max upload 5 MB; photos are optimized for OCR before upload.

Romanization:

Target Language:

Select Layout

Stacked

上      海
shàng  hǎi

Vertical blocks

上      海
shàng  hǎi
Shanghai

Side by side

上 | shàng
海 | hǎi

Three sections

上海

shàng hǎi

Shanghai

Translation only

Shanghai

Advanced options

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Translation mode

Line-aware Ollama translation for formatted output.

By paragraph Recommended · balanced speed and formatting Line by line Most accurate · slower Whole text Fastest · line breaks may shift

Processed on our servers by default; Google Translate fallback sends text externally only if you choose it.

What's free

Everything on this page, with no account — about 100 documents a day per visitor, photos included today. Text translation and every export format will stay free.

A free account adds API keys for the Obsidian plugin and Telegram bot, currently 10 jobs a day. There is no paid plan yet. If one arrives it would cover the expensive parts — reading text from images at volume, batch processing, long documents, higher API limits — because those are what cost real money to run.

Your text is not sent to a third-party AI provider

Translation and image text extraction run on hardware we own and operate, not on an external AI service. The one exception is the optional Google Translate fallback, which only runs if you ask for it.