14. A system for creating digitized text for a record from an image of the record, comprising: one or more processors; and a memory, the memory storing instructions that are executable by the one or more processors and configure the system to: receive multiple word images from one or more records; for each received word image, identify multiple word features of that word image; assign one or more values to each of the multiple word features for each word image in order to create a feature vector associated with that word image; and assign each word image to a word cluster based on its feature vector, wherein each word image is assigned to a word cluster based on its feature vector by: calculating a distance between each one of the multiple word images and every other one of the multiple word images, based on feature vectors associated with those word images; selecting, from among the multiple word images, two of the word images that are closest in distance to each other; and assigning the two of the word images to the word cluster.
26. The system of claim 14 , 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.