Patent ID: 7254531

Claim:
A stand-alone, hand-held, computerized scanning apparatus, which includes: a body, having a proximal end with respect to a portion of text, in a first language; a scanner, located within the body, substantially at the proximal end, adapted for scanning the portion of text, in the first language, wherein the portion of text is selected from the group consisting of at least one phrase, at least one clause, at least one sentence, at least two sentences, and a combination thereof; a computerized system, located within the body, in communication with the scanner, adapted for performing: OCR conversion of the scanned portion of text; and contextual analysis of phrases, clauses and sentences, in the first language; and a user-interactive feature, in communication with the computerized system, adapted for marking a dictionary entry embedded within a grammatical unit, the grammatical unit being selected from the group consisting of a phrase, a clause and a sentence, in the portion of text.