AliExpress Description Images With Chinese Text: What to Do With Them

Scroll down any AliExpress listing and you will find the "description": often a long column of images rather than text. Many of them are infographics made for the supplier's own marketplace pages, with Chinese captions, another store's logo, a watermark, or prices and promotions that do not apply to you.

Importer apps often copy those images into your Shopify description as they are. On your page they look out of place at best. At worst they show someone else's brand, which is a reason to have content taken down.

First, get the facts out of them

Before you decide what to do with the images, make sure you have the information in them. Supplier infographics often hold the only copy of a detail: the size chart, what is in the box, battery life, how to install it.

• Read the numbers and labels off the image; units and model numbers are usually in Latin characters even when the captions are not.
• For the captions, a phone camera translation app gives you the gist.
• Write the facts down as text. Text is what shoppers can read on a phone, what search engines can read, and what can be translated.

Your options, from easiest to best

1. Leave them out. Use the clean photos from the listing's gallery, usually the product on a plain background and a few in use, and put everything else in text: bullets, a specs table, an FAQ. For a test product this is usually enough.

2. Crop them. Many infographics have a usable product shot under the caption. Crop to the product and drop the text. Check the crop for logos and watermarks.

3. Rebuild the useful ones with your own text. A size chart or "what's in the box" graphic is genuinely helpful. Recreate it in any design tool, in your buyer's language, with your units.

4. Ask the supplier for clean files. Some suppliers have the photos without text or logos and will send them if you ask through the listing's chat, especially if you plan to order regularly.

5. Take your own photos. Order a sample and photograph it. It is the only way to have images no other store has, and it lets you check the product before you sell it. For a product that passes its first test, it is worth doing.

What not to do

• Do not publish images with another brand's logo or name, including the supplier's shop name. You do not have the right to use it.
• Do not leave promotional text in images: other stores' prices, "free shipping" banners or discounts. A price in an image that does not match your page is the kind of mismatch ad platforms reject.
• Do not rely on images for important facts. If the size chart only exists as an image, a shopper on a slow connection or using a screen reader never sees it. Put it in text too.
• Add alt text to every image you keep, describing what it shows.

How DropAI handles description images

DropAI writes the page as text from the listing's facts, so you do not need the supplier's text-in-image graphics to explain the product. In the editor you choose which of the supplier's photos go in the gallery and in each feature block, set the main image and edit the alt text written for each photo.

Two honest limits: DropAI does not edit the pixels of an image, so it cannot remove text or a logo from a photo (AI image tools are not available yet), and when a listing has almost no text and only image descriptions, there are fewer facts to write from and the page comes out shorter. In that case, add the facts you read off the images to the page yourself in the editor.

See which photos and facts it pulls from your listing. The preview is free and needs no sign-up.