8. A computing device having instructions stored therein for implementing computer-executable components for segmenting Western and hieroglyphic portions of textual lines, wherein the computer-executable components comprise: an input component that receives an input image that includes at least one textual line; an inter-character break identifier component that identifies one or more candidate inter-character breaks along the at least one textual line; an inter-character break classifier component that classifies at least one of the one or more candidate inter-character breaks as an actual break, a non-break or an indeterminate break based at least in part on geometrical properties of the at least one of the one or more candidate inter-character breaks and character bounding boxes adjacent thereto; a character recognition component that recognizes a candidate character based at least in part on a feature set extracted from the candidate character; a Western and hieroglyphic text classifier component that segments the textual line into Western text segment and hieroglyphic text segment; and an output component that receives line segmentation and recognition results.
8. A computing device having instructions stored therein for implementing computer-executable components for segmenting Western and hieroglyphic portions of textual lines, wherein the computer-executable components comprise: an input component that receives an input image that includes at least one textual line; an inter-character break identifier component that identifies one or more candidate inter-character breaks along the at least one textual line; an inter-character break classifier component that classifies at least one of the one or more candidate inter-character breaks as an actual break, a non-break or an indeterminate break based at least in part on geometrical properties of the at least one of the one or more candidate inter-character breaks and character bounding boxes adjacent thereto; a character recognition component that recognizes a candidate character based at least in part on a feature set extracted from the candidate character; a Western and hieroglyphic text classifier component that segments the textual line into Western text segment and hieroglyphic text segment; and an output component that receives line segmentation and recognition results. 9. The computing device of claim 8 wherein the Western and hieroglyphic text classifier component also places inter-word breaks around at least one character that has been recognized as a hieroglyphic character with a confidence level greater than a threshold level.