2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the step of performing word segmentation on the image includes the sub-steps of: performing pre-processing on the image to remove non-text elements; performing line extraction on the preprocessed image to provide extracted text lines; performing word segmentation on the extracted text lines.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the step of performing word segmentation on the image includes the sub-steps of: performing pre-processing on the image to remove non-text elements; performing line extraction on the preprocessed image to provide extracted text lines; performing word segmentation on the extracted text lines. 6. The method of claim 2 , wherein the sub-step of performing line extraction on the pre-processed image further includes the sub-step of: performing local skew correction inside a bounding box corresponding to each extracted text line.