1. An electronic apparatus for translating words into a target language, the electronic device comprising: an electronic display; an electronic processor; and instructions to cause the electronic apparatus to: acquire an image of text; detect a selection of a word or word combination in the image to be translated; perform optical character recognition (OCR) on the selected word or word combination using a character alphabet of a plurality of languages; generate a set of recognition variants for each word of the selected word or word combination; transmit each set of recognition variants to a set of language specific processors; eliminate language inappropriate variants from the set of recognition variants for each language; match each of the remaining variants to a source language; confirm that at least one of the remaining variants is in at least one language specific word list; translate a confirmed word variant using a translation dictionary; and provide a translation of the confirmed word variant.