22. The system of claim 13 , wherein the stored instructions further configure the system to provide a digitized record with searchable computer-readable text based on the selected digitized text assigned to each of the word images.
13. 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: obtain one or more digital images of a record; evaluate the digital images in order to locate each of multiple word images; for each located word image, identify multiple word features of that word image; assign, to one group of word images, designated ones of the multiple word images based on the distance between the multiple word images, the distance representing the similarity of word features between at least two of the word images; select a representative word image in the one group of word images, by calculating, at the system, word feature values for the word features of each of the multiple word images assigned to the one group of word images, and using the word feature values to determine, at the system, a word image that is representative of the word images in the one group of word images; select digitized text for the representative word image; and assign the selected digitized text to each of the word images in the one group of word images.