17. The image processing apparatus of claim 16 further comprising a Western word recognizer engine for recognizing words in the Western text segment.
18. The image processing apparatus of claim 17 wherein the Western word recognizer engine provides a Western word recognition result and a confidence level associated therewith, wherein the confidence level represents a probability that recognized words have been recognized correctly and wherein the Western and hieroglyphic text classifier component is further configured to reclassify the Western text segment as a hieroglyphic text segment if the confidence level is below a threshold level.