1. A method for creating digitized text for a record from an image of the record, comprising: obtaining a digital image of a record; evaluating the record image in order to locate each of multiple word images; for each located word image, identifying multiple word features of that word image; assigning each of the multiple word images that have similar word features to one of a plurality of word clusters; selecting a representative word image in each of the word clusters as a centroid; reviewing, by an analyst, the centroid in each of the word clusters, and entering digitized text for the centroid; and assigning the digitized text for the centroid to all other word images in the same word cluster as the centroid.
10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the multiple word features are selected 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 whole.