What tool allows a fast translation from Chinese that is both scaleable and exportable? I am currently limited and slowed down in my progress learning Chinese, that some times I read a text from my textbook and cannot identify a character, because I don't know its pronunciation. I don't know its pronunciation and thus can't look it up.
Now there are several ways to bypass that circumstance, however there is yet no neat or fast way to get to its pinyin and translation.
Ideally there were a tool as Google's translate for Android, that also simplified the identification process and made it exportable (as PDF).
Is there already a tool for that? Otherwise I would write a tool or later an application that translates any Chinese texts from images, documents etc. and automatically stores it as a PDF somewhere, either on a hard drive or uploads it to a cloud.
There are several ways to look up characters without knowing their pronunciation.


In printed dictionaries, you need to identify the character's radical (or at least one of the character's radical components), consult the dictionary's radical index (where characters with that radical will be ordered by number of strokes) and thus find the character's pronunciation. You can then look up the character in the normal way, i.e. by pinyin. (Some dictionaries also offer other ways to look up characters, but this example should be sufficient.)
Since this way of looking up characters is slow and frustrating (see e.g. Yes, it really can take a year to learn how to look up a Chinese character), there are digital alternatives:


Looking up the character through its radicals in a digital/online dictionary such as MDBG. 
Looking up the character in an online dictionary that supports handwriting recognition (e.g. MDBG: click on the paintbrush button) or an app. There are several apps that support handwriting input. See for example Pleco, How to use Chinese handwriting recognition on the iPhone/iPad and Best Android apps for Chinese handwriting. 
There are also apps that support character recognition based on optical character recognition (OCR).