18. The handwritten word recognition system of claim 5 , further comprising: a post-processing module operable to hypothesize a set of one or more words from a given dictionary which are suggested by the optimal string.
18. The handwritten word recognition system of claim 5 , further comprising: a post-processing module operable to hypothesize a set of one or more words from a given dictionary which are suggested by the optimal string. 19. The handwritten word recognition system of claim 18 , wherein the post-processing module uses the Levenshtein edit distance function with empirically determined weights to hypothesize the set of one or more words.