The built-in translator shows words and phrases in the language used in the YandexBrowser interface. It can also recognize text in images and provides translation over the source text.
- Translate pages, words, and phrases
- Check spelling in a foreign language
- Translate images
- Translation settings
- Turn translation off
- Problems with translation
Translate pages, words, and phrases
- Pages
- Words and phrases
YandexBrowser automatically detects the language of the loaded page. If it's different from the interface language, YandexBrowser asks if you want to translate it. You can also open the translation dialog window by clicking
in the SmartBox.
To translate the page text to the YandexBrowser interface language, clickTranslate in the window. To display the page text in the original language again, clickShow original in the window.
If you want to translate a page into a different foreign language, choose the language manually by clicking
→ Translate page into a different language in the window.If you translated a page into a language and then changed the translation language, the images will automatically be translated into the new language.
To see the original text of the translated page, hover over a sentence. The original text appears in a pop-up window.
Note.
If the pop-up window with the text doesn't appear:
Click
→ Settings→ Tools.In the Translate section, enable the Display pop-ups with original text option.
The browser can translate separate words or sentences on a page to Russian. To see the translation of a word or phrase, select it and click 
in the context menu.
Check spelling in a foreign language
YandexBrowser checks spelling in input forms. For example, when you work with mail.
Click
→ Settings→ System.OpenLanguage and region settings.
In theSpell check section, clickAdd language.
On the left side of theLanguages window, select the language.
Note. If the language you need is not on the list, go back toLanguage and region settings. In the Page display language section, click Add language and select the language from the full list of languages supported by YandexBrowser.
Click
→ Settings→ System.OpenLanguage and region settings.
In theSpell check section, clickCustom dictionary.
Edit the dictionary:
- Add a word
- Remove a word
In the upper-right corner of the screen, click Add.
Enter the word.
Click Add.
Hover your mouse cursor over the word.
On the right, click Delete.
Enable the spellchecker using a built-in dictionary
Add a word to the user dictionary
When you enter text, YandexBrowser underlines unfamiliar words. If you are sure the underlined word is spelled correctly, right-click it and select Add to dictionary.
You can edit the user dictionary:
Translate images
- One image
- All images
Right-click the image and select Translate image in the context menu.
To translate the rest of the images:
Hover over an image and then over the
icon that appears.Click Translate.
icon that appears.Hover over the image and then over the
or icon that appears.Click Translate (or Translate text in image).
If a page is translated automatically
icon that appears.Note. If an image is small, the translate button isn't shown. Right-click the image and select Translate image in the context menu.
To see the original image, use one of the following methods:
Hover over an image and then over the
icon that appears. Click Translated.Right-click the image and select Show original in the context menu.
Hover over the image and click
→ Revert to original image.
icon that appears. Click To hide the translate button in all images, hover over any image and click 
→ Hide button.
Translate a page automatically or manually.
In the Page translated into <language> window that opens, click Translate all images.
Note. If there are no images with text in them on the site, the window doesn't open.
To display the page text and images in the original language again, click Show original in the window.
Translation settings
Open any page in the language you wish to enable translation for by default.
Click
→ → Translate page into a different language.Enable the Always translate from <language> into <language> option.
ClickTranslate.
- In the translation window
- From the Settings
Open any page in the language that you don't want the browser to translate.
Click
→ → Never translate from <language>.Click
→ Settings→ System.OpenLanguage and region settings.
In the Page display language section, delete the selected language.
- In the translation window
- From the Settings
Open any page in the language you want to re-enable translation for.
Click
→ and disable the Never translate from <language> option.Click
→ Settings→ System.OpenLanguage and region settings.
In the Page display language section, click Add language.
Select the language from the full list of languages supported by YandexBrowser.
Click
→ Settings→ Tools.Make sure that the Send text snippets to Yandex to improve translation quality option is selected under Translate.
Enable translation by default
If you want YandexBrowser to translate pages in a particular language without asking for permission:
Disable translation by default
Enable translation by default
Improve page language detection
Turn translation off
- Pages
- Words and phrases
- Images
If you don't want YandexBrowser to offer to translate pages in a foreign language:
Click
→ Settings→ Tools.In the Translate section, disable the Offer to translate pages that aren't in the same language as the interface.
Click
→ Settings→ Tools.In the Translatу section, disable the Translate selected words and phrases and Translate a word by pointing the cursor at it and pressing the Shift key options.
Click
→ Settings→ Tools.In the Translate section, disable the Show the translate image button option.
Problems with translation
Click
→ Settings→ Tools.In the Translate section, make sure the following options are enabled:
Offer to translate pages that aren't in the same language as the interface.
Translate selected words and phrases.
Show the translate image button.
Right-click on the page.
In the context menu, select Translate to English.
The translator isn't working
The translator in YandexBrowser is enabled by default. Make sure that you have not turned off the translator manually:
It's also possible that the page isn't translated because you chose not to translate it when viewing it previously. In this case:
An image isn't translated
If the
icon appears on the image, it means it couldn't be translated. The translator can't recognize images that aren't clear enough and text that's cursive or handwritten.
If an image is small (such as a button with text on it), the translation may be hidden. Hover over the image to see it.
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