1. An interactive system for increasing retrieval performance of images depicting text by allowing users to provide relevance feedback on words contained in the images, the system comprising: a user interface through which the user queries the system with one or more query terms for one or more images contained in the system; one or more word image suggestions displayed to the user through the user interface, wherein each word image suggestion contains one of the same and slightly variant text as recognized from the word image by the system than the one or more query terms; and inclusion in the system by the user of one or more word image suggestions that visually match the one or more query terms to increase system recall of images for the one or more query terms.