3. A method for providing characters and character groups from a roundel image comprising the steps of: vertically-aligning a region of electronically represented text in the roundel image; determining a point at which the roundel image starts; electronically analyzing the region to produce characters and character confidences; dividing the roundel image into sections according to the point; selecting the characters associated with highest character confidence values of the character confidences; computing character group confidences by summing the highest character confidence values for each of the selected characters that form the character groups; selecting the character groups with highest character group confidence values of the character group confidences as the selected character groups; marking each of the selected character groups as flipped; creating flipped marked character groups if the selected character group meets pre-determined criteria; marking each of the selected character groups in one of the sections as unflipped if none of the selected character groups in the one section is flipped, or if the one section includes predetermined text that is unflipped; if there are the flipped marked character groups, creating an image by rearranging the underlying representation of the flipped marked character groups; electronically analyzing the image to produce new characters each associated with new character confidences; selecting final characters according to the associated new character confidences; and providing the final characters to an electronic sink.
4. The method as in claim 3 further comprising the steps of: determining unflipped characters and unflipped character confidences for each character in the vertically-aligned electronically represented text; flipping the characters; determining flipped characters and flipped character confidences for the flipped characters; selecting a set of character confidences from the unflipped confidences and the flipped confidences according to predetermined criteria; summing the set of character confidences for each of the characters to compile a set of unflipped character group confidences; and summing the set of flipped character confidences for each of the flipped characters to compile a set of flipped character group confidences.