10. The method of claim 6 , further comprising: associating an unseen font with the closest available font from the trained classifier; and using one or more character bigrams.
6. A method of recognizing text, the method comprising: receiving a frame of text line image; identifying a font of the text line image via a trained classifier for font association; dividing the frame into a plurality of cells via an adaptive sliding window, wherein a width of each of the cells is determined when a ratio of a sum of ink-pixels within the respective cell to a total number of ink-pixels is greater than or equal to an inverse of a total number of cells in the frame; extracting text features with associated font-specific parameters from each of the cells; recognizing the extracted text features using an associated font-specific recognizer for the identified font; and outputting a recognition hypothesis.