8. The method of claim 2 , further comprising the steps of: generating, prior to the step of performing word matching, word segmentation hypotheses for each of the extracted text lines using a Markov Chain; performing a threshold selection on the word segmentation hypotheses using a segmentation threshold; selecting the most likely word segmentation hypotheses based on the segmentation threshold.
10. The method of claim 8 , wherein the step of performing a threshold selection on the word segmentation hypotheses further uses automatically generated over and under segmentation training data.