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CLUSTER CAPTURES-DESKTOP-OCR · 13 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2026-09-10

Screen OCR translation tools

This cluster consists of desktop utilities that capture a screen region, perform OCR to extract text, and then translate it—either by copying the result, using online services, or overlaying translations in place. The dated history is too thin to read a shape from, since only 3 entries predate the index start and the cluster appears to predate the index or have mostly undated members. Among those with traction signals, screenshot-box leads with 2 stars, followed by ScreenLingo and GhostTranslator with 1 star each.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

APR 2023: 1MAR 2024: 1AUG 2025: 1AUG 2026: 2SEP 2026: 8
APR 2023SEP 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 3 hand-coded · 10 unlabelled

Operator · 7 hobby · 3 open source · 3 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 13 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01screenshot-box2★17 dayslivehobbyDesktop app that captures screen regions, runs offline text recognition, and lets users annotate and search screenshots by their text.
  2. 02ScreenLingo1★17 dayslivehand-codedhobbyDesktop app that captures screen text via OCR, translates it, and answers questions about the selected content on Windows.
  3. 03GhostTranslator1★1 mo—hobbyDesktop app that translates on-screen text via OCR for developers and gamers, with a heads-up display and text-to-speech output.
  4. 04translate-lens0★25 days—hobbyDesktop app that translates text from screenshots and clipboard using optical character recognition with a user-provided API key.
  5. 05ScreenLens_AI_Agent0★19 days—hobbyWindows desktop utility that lets users select a screen region, runs local OCR, and copies or translates the recognized text.
  6. 06e-search-bin0★27 daysliveopen sourceDesktop app for screenshots, OCR, translation, reverse image search, and screen recording.
  7. 07SeeGet1★1 mo—hand-codedhobbyDesktop app that captures screen regions, recognizes text with OCR, and overlays translations in place using multiple translation engines.
  8. 08esearch-electron-bin0★2 moliveopen sourceApp that OCRs screenshots to search or translate text, and includes a screen recorder.
  9. 09Aur-OCR-Translator0★1 mo—Desktop OCR translator that captures any screen region with a hotkey, recognizes text locally, and translates it in a floating overlay for reading foreign-language content.
  10. 10captura-windows0★1 mo—hand-codedhobbyWindows desktop utility that captures screen areas and offers annotation tools plus OCR-powered automatic text blurring for privacy.
  11. 11screenshot-translator0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceApplication that captures a screenshot and translates the text within it for users needing quick language translation.
  12. 12screen-translate0★unknownliveDesktop application that captures a selected screen region, extracts text via OCR, and translates it using online translation services.
  13. 13Xerolas0★unknownliveDesktop app that captures any screen region and gives AI answers, explanations, summaries, and translations about the visible content from any application.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.