-The virtual highlighter is an electronic device in the approximate shape and size of a highlighter pen.
-You run the tip over the text you're reading and the pen captures it as a tiny image in its memory.
-When you synch the device with your computer, included Optical Character Recognition or "OCR" technology identify characters in the digitized image.
-If all goes as planned, you end up with the "highlighted text" in an editable Microsoft Word document on your computer.