1. A system comprising: a clipboard buffer portion of a computing platform configured to receive a copy of a user-selected image elements from within a source computer file upon operation of a user cut-and-paste command; an isolator and interceptor configured to receive a user-supplied isolation rule defining one or more types of image elements to be isolated, examine said copied image element in said clipboard buffer, responsive to said image element meeting said isolation rule, transfer said image element from said clipboard buffer to an isolation store, and disable pasting of said image element into a destination computer file; a recognizer configured to recognize images of text within said image element stored in said isolation store; a source language identifier configured to determine a natural language in which said recognized text is expressed; a preference comparitor configured to determine if said natural language of said recognized text matches a user-specified destination natural language; a translator configured to perform natural language translation of said recognized text into said user-specified destination natural language; a text image renderer configured to produce computer-readable translated text image data for said translated text; an image modifier configured to replace text within said image element stored in said isolation store with said translated text image data; and a copier configured to complete pasting of said image element having said replaced text to one or more user-designated destination points within said destination computer file.