34. The computerized method of claim 26, further comprising a step of merging the word produced by the combining step with an existing word already present on the line area by: calculating a leftmost and a rightmost coordinate of the existing word; determining a center point for the word produced by the combining step; and combining into a single new word the word produced by the combining step and the existing word if the center point of the word produced by the combining step is between approximately the leftmost and the rightmost coordinates of the existing word.
26. A computerized method for combining a plurality of strokes associated with a selected line area together as words, said method comprising the steps of: grouping the plurality of strokes into characters; determining measurement parameters about the characters including average character width; defining a membership function for joining two adjacent characters together as a word from the measurement parameters; retrieving a first character; retrieving a second character that is adjacent to the first character; determining measurement parameters between the first character and the second character; combining the first and second characters into a word using the defined membership function and the measurement parameters between the first character and the second character.