PhantomInk - Book Translator

Phantom Ink helps you turn a passage from a printed book into a reading record you can translate, annotate, and revisit. Your marks stay in a digital layer, while your paper book stays clean. HOW IT WORKS 1. Photograph a page or import one from Photos 2. Brush over the lines you want to keep 3. Review the recognized text, translate it, or add a note. You can also edit the source text manually 4. Save the original page, highlighted page, and annotations together, organized by book FEATURES • Draw directly on page photos with natural marker strokes • On-device text recognition with Apple Vision and on-device translation with Apple Translation • English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese • Switch between original and highlighted pages and open a full-screen view for a closer look • Organize passages by book and search saved source text, translations, and notes • Revisit saved reading records offline LOCAL FIRST No account is needed for local reading, annotation, and organization. Recognition and translation themselves run on your device. Translation requires system support for the selected languages and may require downloading language resources first. No ads or tracking. OPTIONAL CLOUD SYNC When you sign in with your email and password, book information, page images, source text, translations, and notes are synced to your account's private cloud space for access on other devices. You can delete your account and cloud data inside the app. TEXT RECOGNITION This version supports horizontal text recognition. Recognition of vertical layouts is not yet fully supported.