1. A method for creating digitized text for a record from an image of the record, comprising: receiving multiple word images from one or more records; for each received word image, identifying multiple word features of that word image, wherein the multiple word features comprise at least two word features from a group comprising top line profile, bottom line profile, left line profile, right line profile, vertical projection profile, horizontal projection profile, peaks, valleys, watershed cup areas, watershed cap areas, loops and holes, intersections and crossings, stroke orientation, word aspect ratio, and convex hull; assigning one or more values to each of the multiple word features for each word image in order to create a feature vector for that word image; and assigning each word image to a word cluster based on its feature vector.