9. The invention of claim 8 further comprising a microprocessor programmed to perform activities of said feature extraction module and said curve group generation module.
9. The invention of claim 8 further comprising a microprocessor programmed to perform activities of said feature extraction module and said curve group generation module. 12. The invention of claim 9 further comprising a memory wherein said handwritten words are indexed based on features for word localization extracted from said handwritten words contained in said document and wherein text segments are grouped from said handwritten words for purposes of indexing said documents based on words queries.