27. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 23 , further comprising instructions to select a set of patterns for the second portion of the received image based on a knowledge about the sequence of character.
23. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 21 , further comprising instructions to calculate hypothesis values for each hypothesis of recognition in the generated first series of hypotheses based at least on the determined first coincidence values of a grapheme with a pattern.