Abstract: A method and apparatus for extracting terms associated with a displayed text. The method and apparatus receive a location indication from a user, read the text, determine the seed location within the text relating to the indicated location, determine the text surrounding the seed location in a determined scope, match terms from the determined text scope with a concept collection, choose the most dominant concepts which were matched, and extract terms that are associated with the dominant concepts.

Abstract: The invention comprises a method and system of recognition and translation, stored on a digital storage device with an operating system and running computer applications, such as a personal computer, which recognizes input by the human computer user and transmits output to the human user, which performs non-optical and optical character recognition of characters displayed on the output device of the digital storage device, which automatically recognizes and translates phrases contiguous to and including the phrase upon which the System is activated and which translates words from one written phrase set to a second written phrase set.