Chinese is uniquely hard to type if you don't already read it: there's no alphabet to spell with, no spaces between words, and a single character you can't look up stops you cold. That's the case for a camera translator: you point instead of type.
Signs, menus, labels → camera
Point a camera translator at the characters and the English paints in place. This is the fastest way to read a menu, a street sign, a product label or a train departure board (the things you meet as objects, not as text you can copy).
It handles both Simplified (mainland China, Singapore) and Traditional (Taiwan, Hong Kong) characters, and a good one puts the English exactly where the characters were, so a two column menu keeps every dish sitting next to its own price. The menu method is the same as for a Japanese menu, and the dish names, spice characters and dim sum checklists worth knowing are covered in Chinese menu translator.
Photos and screenshots → import
Already have the image (a screenshot of an app, a photo someone sent, a page you can't select)? Import it into the translator and get the same in-place result without re-shooting.
Text you can select → paste, and keep the pinyin
For a message or caption you can select, paste it into a text translator for the cleanest result. It reads exact characters instead of recognising them from pixels. Turn on pinyin (the romanization with tone marks) so you can actually say what you're reading. Tones matter in Chinese: mā / má / mǎ / mà are four different words.
Speaking → voice
For asking or ordering, a voice translator listens in English and speaks Mandarin back. Tones make Chinese speech recognition sensitive to noise, so a quiet spot helps.
Why "in place" matters more for Chinese
Because Chinese runs characters together with no word boundaries, a translation dropped in a separate box makes it hard to map English back to what you're looking at. Painting the English over the characters, keeping the layout, is what lets you actually use a menu or follow a sign.
A manhua page is a different job
Comics break every general translator, Chinese ones included. The dialogue sits inside irregular bubbles, sometimes running vertically, and a caption dropped on top covers the drawing you were looking at. That needs a mode that detects each bubble and replaces the Chinese inside it, which is what translating manhua to English walks through, Simplified and Traditional alike. The method by method breakdown for every other source is in how to translate Japanese to English, and it carries straight over to Chinese.
Yomi reads Chinese, Simplified and Traditional, through the camera, from photos, and as text, with no account to create first. Point it at the characters and they become English where they sit.