8. The handwritten word recognition system of claim 5 , wherein the over-segmentation-relabeling algorithm segments each character into at most two to seven consecutive segments.
8. The handwritten word recognition system of claim 5 , wherein the over-segmentation-relabeling algorithm segments each character into at most two to seven consecutive segments. 9. The handwritten word recognition system of claim 8 , wherein each character of the imaged word is segmented into at most four consecutive segments.