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title: "Using Papago Image Translation"
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tags: ["Papago Image Translation"]
updated: 2026-09-17T09:33:52Z
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# Using Papago Image Translation

Available in Classic and VPC

Papago Image Translation is a non-authentication-based Open API. When making a POST call, both the Client ID value and the Client Secret values issued when registering the application are sent to the HTTP Header. You can get the client ID and client secret value issued once you register an application on NAVER Cloud Platform console.

Papago Image Translation APIs are provided as an image translation (text) or image translation (image) APIs depending on the format of the translation result.

- **Papago Image Translation (Text) APIs**  

It is a REST API that recognizes text in the input image, translates the OCR information, and provides the results as text. For description of the Papago Image Translation (Text) APIs, see [Papago Image Translation(Text) APIs](https://api.ncloud-docs.com/docs/en/ai-naver-imagetotextapi).
- **Papago Image Translation (Image) APIs**  

It is a REST APIs that recognizes text in the input image, translates the OCR information, and provides the result as synthesized in the source image. For description of the Papago Image Translation (Image) APIs, see [Papago Image Translation (Image) APIs](https://api.ncloud-docs.com/docs/en/ai-naver-imagetoimageapi).

## Check application authentication information

To see an application's authentication information, follow these steps:

1. Click **Menu** > **All Services** > **AI Services** > **Papago Translation** > **APIs** on the NAVER Cloud Platform console.
2. Click **[Authentication Information]** in the app name field.
3. When the authentication information window appears, check the authentication information. ![papagoimagetranslation-use_application_ko1.png](https://cdn.document360.io/6998976f-9d95-4df8-b847-d375892b92c2/Images/Documentation/papagoimagetranslation-use_application_en1.png?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-14T04%3A06%3A09Z&se=2026-11-14T05%3A06%3A09Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=LE%2FVxVil%2F1hs5VrVebOpm5la%2BEReESXMMy4MxVJHUcg%3D)
  - **Application Key**
    - **Application name**: the name to identify the application
    - **Client ID** (X-NCP-APIGW-API-KEY-ID): ID required for authentication. Enter 'X-NCP-APIGW-API-KEY-ID' in the header or query string.
    - **Client Secret** (X-NCP-APIGW-API-KEY): SecretKey password necessary for authentication. Enter 'X-NCP-APIGW-API-KEY' in the header or query string.
4. Click **[OK]**.

              Caution

              

Make sure the client ID and client secret are kept confidential. You can get new authentication information issued for security.

## Set limits and notifications

### Check usage for the day and current month

To check the usage for the day and for the current month, follow these steps:

1. Click **Menu** > **All Services** > **AI Services** > **Papago Translation** > **APIs** on the NAVER Cloud Platform console.
2. Click **[Set limits and notifications]** of the application whose usage you want to check in the application list.
3. You can see the real-time usage status.
  - It is based on UTC+9.
  - The daily usage is reset to 0 at 00:00 AM Korean time.

### Set usage limits

You can set up daily and monthly usage limits yourself, to prevent excessive usage fees from being charged. To to set up a usage limit, follow these steps:

1. Click **Menu** > **All Services** > **AI Services** > **Papago Translation** > **APIs** on the NAVER Cloud Platform console.
2. Click **[Set limits and notifications]** of the application whose usage limit you want to change in the application list.
3. Enter the monthly and daily limit values under the **[Set limits]** tab.  

![papagoimagetranslation-use_limit01_en.png](https://cdn.document360.io/6998976f-9d95-4df8-b847-d375892b92c2/Images/Documentation/papagoimagetranslation-use_limit01_en.png?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-14T04%3A06%3A09Z&se=2026-11-14T05%3A06%3A09Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=LE%2FVxVil%2F1hs5VrVebOpm5la%2BEReESXMMy4MxVJHUcg%3D)
4. Click **[Save]**.

              Note

              

The history of usage limit changes can be seen in the **[Limit change history]** tab of the Set limits and notifications window.

### Setting threshold notifications

You can choose to receive notifications via email or SMS when a certain usage rate of the daily/monthly limit value set by the user is exceeded. To set up a threshold notification, follow these steps:

1. Click **Menu** > **All Services** > **AI Services** > **Papago Translation** > **APIs** on the NAVER Cloud Platform console.
2. Click **[Set limits and notifications]** of the application whose usage limit you want to change in the application list.
3. Click the checkbox of the daily or monthly limit settings field in the **[Set limits]** tab.
4. Select the threshold value (%) at which you want to be notified.  

![papagoimagetranslation-use_limit01_en.png](https://cdn.document360.io/6998976f-9d95-4df8-b847-d375892b92c2/Images/Documentation/papagoimagetranslation-use_limit02_en.png?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-14T04%3A06%3A09Z&se=2026-11-14T05%3A06%3A09Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=LE%2FVxVil%2F1hs5VrVebOpm5la%2BEReESXMMy4MxVJHUcg%3D)
  - If 70% is selected, notifications are sent at 70%, 80%, 90%, and 100%.
  - If 90% is selected, notifications are sent at 90% and 100%.
5. Click **[Save]**.
6. Enter the address at which you want to receive the threshold notifications by referring to [Set notification recipients](/docs/en/papago-image-translation-use#%ED%86%B5%EB%B3%B4%EB%8C%80%EC%83%81%EC%84%A4%EC%A0%95).

              Note

              

You won't receive notifications if you don't have notification recipients set up, even if you've set up threshold notifications. Make sure to set notification recipients.

### Setting notification recipients

Set up notification recipients and notification methods for when a certain usage rate of the daily/monthly limit value set by the user is exceeded.

1. Click **Menu** > **All Services** > **AI Services** > **Papago Translation** > **APIs** on the NAVER Cloud Platform console.
2. Click **[Set limits and notifications]** of the application whose usage limit you want to change in the application list.
3. Click the **[Set notification recipients]** tab.
4. Select the person to receive notifications and notification method, and click **[Add]**.
  - See [Add persons to receive notifications](/docs/en/papago-image-translation-use#%ED%86%B5%EB%B3%B4%EB%8C%80%EC%83%81%EB%8B%B4%EB%8B%B9%EC%9E%90%EC%B6%94%EA%B0%80) for information on how to add a new person.  

![papagoimagetranslation-use_noti01_en.png](https://cdn.document360.io/6998976f-9d95-4df8-b847-d375892b92c2/Images/Documentation/papagoimagetranslation-use_noti01_en.png?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-14T04%3A06%3A09Z&se=2026-11-14T05%3A06%3A09Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=LE%2FVxVil%2F1hs5VrVebOpm5la%2BEReESXMMy4MxVJHUcg%3D)
5. Once you complete setting up the notification recipients, click **[Save]**.

#### Adding persons to receive notifications

In the Set notification recipients tab, you can select only registered persons to receive notifications. You can register new persons to receive notifications in the Notification Recipient menu of Cloud Insight. To add a new recipient to receive notifications, follow these steps:

1. To add a new person to receive notifications, click **[Manage notification recipients]**.
  - Go to the Notification Recipient menu of Cloud Insight.  

![papagoimagetranslation-use_noti021_en.png](https://cdn.document360.io/6998976f-9d95-4df8-b847-d375892b92c2/Images/Documentation/papagoimagetranslation-use_noti021_en.png?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-14T04%3A06%3A09Z&se=2026-11-14T05%3A06%3A09Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=LE%2FVxVil%2F1hs5VrVebOpm5la%2BEReESXMMy4MxVJHUcg%3D)
2. Click **[Add recipients]** in the Notification Recipient menu.
3. Enter the information on additional recipients, select a group to add recipients, and click **[Register]**.  

![papagoimagetranslation-use_noti02_en.png](https://cdn.document360.io/6998976f-9d95-4df8-b847-d375892b92c2/Images/Documentation/papagoimagetranslation-use_noti02_en.png?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-14T04%3A06%3A09Z&se=2026-11-14T05%3A06%3A09Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=LE%2FVxVil%2F1hs5VrVebOpm5la%2BEReESXMMy4MxVJHUcg%3D)

              Note

              

For more detailed information on managing notification recipients, please refer to [Using Notification Recipient](/docs/en/notification-recipient-use).

## Check API call volume

To see the API call volume in a graph, follow these steps:

1. Click **Menu** > **All Services** > **AI Services** > **Papago Translation** > **Usage** on the NAVER Cloud Platform console.
2. Select the app name and service whose API call volume you want to check, select a search period, and click **[View]**.  

![papagoimagetranslation-use_usage_ko](https://cdn.document360.io/6998976f-9d95-4df8-b847-d375892b92c2/Images/Documentation/papagoimagetranslation-use_usage_en.png?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-14T04%3A06%3A09Z&se=2026-11-14T05%3A06%3A09Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=LE%2FVxVil%2F1hs5VrVebOpm5la%2BEReESXMMy4MxVJHUcg%3D)
3. Check the graph.
  - You can see the number of API calls in a success/failure graph.
  - You can see the usage according to the billing unit by service.
4. To download the search results, click **[Download]**.