Image Translation API Reference

Image Translation

GET/POST /ai/image/translation

Description

Image Translation is specially designed for e-commerce images, supporting at least 18 languages. It accurately handles complex text layouts within images and ensures that the translated content matches the image content. This helps e-commerce platforms and developers easily achieve multilingual conversion and presentation of image content.

Request Parameter

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
imageUrl	String	Yes	Source image URL Image requirements：No more than 4000x4000 pixel. Size up to 10MB. Supporting png, jpeg, jpgm, bmp, webp. Sample: http://example.jpg/
sourceLanguage	String	Yes	Source language code. Supporting languages as the appendix shows. Sample: en
targetLanguage	String	Yes	Target language code. Supporting languages as the appendix shows. Sample: ko
translatingTextInTheProduct	Boolean	No	Choose whether to translate the text within the main subject of images; this allows you to protect and avoid translating embedded information such as product names. As shown in the example image, the text in the red box represents the text on the main subject, while the text in the blue box represents text not on the main subject. Sample：false
useImageEditor	Boolean	No	Whether it return layout information such as the position, font, and color of the text. This is used to obtain data for secondary editing when integrating with the image editor. After receiving the returned ID, you can call image translation data for editing API to get the complete parameter information. Sample: false

Sample Request

Java

IopClient client = new IopClient(url, appkey, appSecret);
IopRequest request = new IopRequest();
request.setApiName("/ai/image/translation");
request.addApiParameter("imageUrl", "https://ae01.alicdn.com/kf/S68468a838ad04cc081a4bd2db32745f1y/M3-Light-emitting-Bluetooth-Headset-Folding-LED-Card-Wireless-Headset-TYPE-C-Charging-Multi-scene-Use.jpg_.webp");
request.addApiParameter("sourceLanguage", "en");
request.addApiParameter("targetLanguage", "fr");
request.addApiParameter("translatingTextInTheProduct", "false");
request.addApiParameter("useImageEditor", "false");
IopResponse response = client.execute(request);
System.out.println(response.getBody());
Thread.sleep(10);

Response Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
resCode	Number	Response code;200 indicates a successful call. For other response codes,please refer to the error code information.
data	Object	Result data that generated.
data.imageUrl	String	The image URL of the translation result.
data.imageEditorId	String	The parameter protocol query ID required by the image editor (exposed when the request parameter useImageEditor is set to true).
requestId	String	Request ID;Used to identify a unique request call.
success	Boolean	Whether successful;true is successful,false is unsuccessful.
resMessage	String	Error message,e.g. "content has sensitive data, please try other input".

Sample Response

Java

{
  "data": {
    "imageUrl": "https://nhci-image.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/tufan%2F512506ce-32a5-11ef-9dd3-00163e08a26f.png?OSSAccessKeyId=LTAI5tCv9DpB7gYic1oGsAyv&Expires=4935959108&Signature=vf2a7lOn8uvvsfDfyeJNiYMls9Y%3D"
  },
  "requestId": "2140c5a117192871068067414ee3ad",
  "success": true,
  "resCode": 200,
  "resMessage": "success",
  "code": "0",
  "request_id": "2140cc8017192871068088228",
  "_trace_id_": "2140c5a117192871068067414ee3ad"
}

Errors

Error Code	Error Message	Description
501	rate limit exceed	The current interface has reached the current limit. Please contact us via navigation bar or email us ([e-mail]) to increase the current limit value.
700	invalid input	The format of the input parameters does not meet the requirements, and resMessage will return detailed fields that do not meet the requirements.
703	image size exceeds the limit	The image size in the request parameters exceeds the limit; the dimensions of the image must not exceed 4000x4000 pixels.
704	invalid image form	The image format in the request parameters is invalid.
705	image file size exceeds the limit	The image size in the request parameters exceeds the limit; the image size must not exceed 10MB.
801	model failed	Internal call exception, please contact us via navigation bar or email us ([e-mail]) for troubleshooting.
900	tpp url error	Internal call exception, please contact us via navigation bar or email us ([e-mail]) for troubleshooting.
1000	content has sensitive data, please try other input	Content has sensitive data, please try other input.
1001	content control failed, please retry	Content control failed, please retry. If the error persists, please contact us via navigation bar or email us ([e-mail]).
1002	content risk filter failed, please contact us	Content risk filter failed, please contact us via navigation bar or email us ([e-mail]).

Appendix

Supported Language Pairs

The image translation API supports translation between the language pairs listed in the following table. More language pairs are continuously being added. Please contact us via navigation bar or email us ([e-mail]).

Source Language	Target Language
Chinese (Simplified)	Arabic
Chinese (Simplified)	Chinese (Traditional)
Chinese (Simplified)	English
Chinese (Simplified)	French
Chinese (Simplified)	Japanese
Chinese (Simplified)	Korean
Chinese (Simplified)	Portuguese (Portugal)
Chinese (Simplified)	Russian
Chinese (Simplified)	Spanish
Chinese (Simplified)	Vietnamese
Chinese (Simplified)	Thai
Chinese (Simplified)	Indonesia
Chinese (Simplified)	Russian
Chinese (Simplified)	German
Chinese (Simplified)	Polish
Chinese (Simplified)	Dutch
Chinese (Simplified)	Italian
Chinese (Simplified)	Ukrainian
Chinese (Simplified)	Turkish
English	Arabic
English	Chinese (Traditional)
English	Chinese (Simplified)
English	Vietnamese
English	French
English	Japanese
English	Korean
English	Portuguese (Portugal)
English	Russian
English	Spanish
English	Thai
English	Indonesia
English	Russian
English	German
English	Polish
English	Dutch
English	Italian
English	Ukrainian
English	Turkish
Turkish	Arabic
Turkish	English

Language Code

The language code uses ISO 639-1 two-digit language codes. For a country/region variant of a language, the table follows the RFC 5646 format of appending a dash followed by an ISO 3166 2-digit country code. For example, the language code for Traditional Chinese is zh-tw.

Language	Language Code
Arabic	ar
Chinese (Simplified)	zh
Chinese (Traditional)	zh-tw
English	en
French	fr
Japanese	ja
Korean	ko
Portuguese (Portugal)	pt
Russian	ru
Spanish	es
Turkish	tr
Hebrew	he
Vietnamese	vi
Thai	th
Indonesia	id
Russian	ru
German	de
Polish	pl
Dutch	nl
Italian	it
Ukrainian	uk