15. A data processing system comprising: a processor; a computer usable medium connected to processor, wherein the computer usable medium contains a set of instructions for correcting distortion in an image of a page with a content, wherein the processor is designed to carry out a set of instructions to: identify a set of high quality words including at least one high quality word in an undistorted region of one or more images of one or more pages having content related to the content of the page; identify at least one distorted word in the image of the page, each distorted word of said at least one distorted word corresponding to a high quality word from the set of high quality words; generate a global transformation function for application to the image of the page so as to transform a distorted word of said at least one distorted word to its corresponding high quality word; and apply the global transformation function to pixels of the image of the page.
15. A data processing system comprising: a processor; a computer usable medium connected to processor, wherein the computer usable medium contains a set of instructions for correcting distortion in an image of a page with a content, wherein the processor is designed to carry out a set of instructions to: identify a set of high quality words including at least one high quality word in an undistorted region of one or more images of one or more pages having content related to the content of the page; identify at least one distorted word in the image of the page, each distorted word of said at least one distorted word corresponding to a high quality word from the set of high quality words; generate a global transformation function for application to the image of the page so as to transform a distorted word of said at least one distorted word to its corresponding high quality word; and apply the global transformation function to pixels of the image of the page. 20. A data processing system as claimed in claim 15 , comprising instructions to segment the image of the page or said one or more images of one or more pages into words.