20. An apparatus for recognizing at least one word in a document, the word including at least one predetermined character, the apparatus comprising: means for providing a recognized word based on the word in the document; first determining means for determining whether the recognized word is correct; means for generating if the recognized word is incorrect, at least one reference word, each reference word comprising a different set of predetermined characters and being generated according to a process that is independent of a content of at least one confusion matrix; second determining means for determining for each reference word a corresponding replacement word value based on a calculation involving a mathematical function being applied to a content of the at least one confusion matrix; and means for replacing the incorrect recognized word with the reference word most likely matching the at least one word in the document based on the corresponding replacement word value.
20. An apparatus for recognizing at least one word in a document, the word including at least one predetermined character, the apparatus comprising: means for providing a recognized word based on the word in the document; first determining means for determining whether the recognized word is correct; means for generating if the recognized word is incorrect, at least one reference word, each reference word comprising a different set of predetermined characters and being generated according to a process that is independent of a content of at least one confusion matrix; second determining means for determining for each reference word a corresponding replacement word value based on a calculation involving a mathematical function being applied to a content of the at least one confusion matrix; and means for replacing the incorrect recognized word with the reference word most likely matching the at least one word in the document based on the corresponding replacement word value. 21. The apparatus according to claim 20, wherein: the first determining means comprises means for determining whether the recognized word is spelled correctly, the at least one confusion matrix includes a plurality of character values and the second determining means comprises: means for obtaining, for each character sequence in each one of the at least one reference word, a character value representing a likelihood that the character sequence of the at least one reference word is recognized as the corresponding character sequence in the incorrectly spelled recognized word, wherein each of the character sequence of the at least one reference word and the character sequence of the incorrectly spelled recognized word comprises at least one character position, respectively, and means for establishing a reference word recognition value based on the obtained character values.