Portable text capture and translator device

A non-transitory memory device used to configure a computer device CPU to capture and translate text data from an image, comprising:

• stored software that includes multiple software modules, text data for at least a first language in a group of languages, a dictionary for the first language, and syntax rules for the first language to translate into a second language, uploadable to a non-transitory memory of the computer device;
• an image processing module for processing captured image data to convert to digital data;
• an optical character recognition module to recognize and extract language characters and text;
• a language translation module for translating the extracted language characters and text from the first language into the second language and applying the syntax rules to refine the translation;
• wherein the computer device includes a display for displaying translated characters and text in the second language.

A method for converting text on an object from a first language into a second language, comprising the steps of:

• capturing an image with text with a camera on a computer device;
• processing image data to convert captured image data into digital image data;
• performing optical character recognition to recognize and extract language characters and text from the digital image data;
• translating recognized and extracted language characters and text from a first language into a second language including applying syntactic rules to refine the translation using data stored in a non-transitory memory on the computer device to generate a final recommended translation;
• and
• generating an image of the translated second language text onto a GUI display.