16. The image processing apparatus of claim 15 wherein the Western and hieroglyphic text classifier component is configured to determine a ratio of a number of Western characters in a text segment located between consecutive inter-word breaks and a total number of characters in the text segment and classifying the text segment as a Western text segment if the ratio exceeds a predetermined threshold or an hieroglyphic text segment otherwise.
16. The image processing apparatus of claim 15 wherein the Western and hieroglyphic text classifier component is configured to determine a ratio of a number of Western characters in a text segment located between consecutive inter-word breaks and a total number of characters in the text segment and classifying the text segment as a Western text segment if the ratio exceeds a predetermined threshold or an hieroglyphic text segment otherwise. 17. The image processing apparatus of claim 16 further comprising a Western word recognizer engine for recognizing words in the Western text segment.