Abstract: A PDA (10) is provided that includes: an LCD touch screen (12) that supports a GUI through which a user selectively provides input to the PDA (10); a scanner (16) housed within the PDA (10), the scanner (16) selectively capturing an image by passing the scanner (16) over the image; an OCR object (30) which identifies characters of text within an image captured by the scanner (16), the OCR object (30) generating text in a first language; and, a language translation object (32) which produces a translation of text generated by the OCR object (30), the translation being in a second language different than the first language. Suitably, at least one of the image captured by the scanner (16), the text generated by the OCR object (30), and the translation produced by the language translation object (32) is selectively output on the LCD touch screen (12).