14. A system for creating digitized text for a record from an image of the record, comprising: one or more processors; and a memory, the memory storing instructions that are executable by the one or more processors and configure the system to: receive multiple word images from one or more records; for each received word image, identify multiple word features of that word image; assign one or more values to each of the multiple word features for each word image in order to create a feature vector associated with that word image; and assign each word image to a word cluster based on its feature vector, wherein each word image is assigned to a word cluster based on its feature vector by: calculating a distance between each one of the multiple word images and every other one of the multiple word images, based on feature vectors associated with those word images; selecting, from among the multiple word images, two of the word images that are closest in distance to each other; and assigning the two of the word images to the word cluster.
14. A system for creating digitized text for a record from an image of the record, comprising: one or more processors; and a memory, the memory storing instructions that are executable by the one or more processors and configure the system to: receive multiple word images from one or more records; for each received word image, identify multiple word features of that word image; assign one or more values to each of the multiple word features for each word image in order to create a feature vector associated with that word image; and assign each word image to a word cluster based on its feature vector, wherein each word image is assigned to a word cluster based on its feature vector by: calculating a distance between each one of the multiple word images and every other one of the multiple word images, based on feature vectors associated with those word images; selecting, from among the multiple word images, two of the word images that are closest in distance to each other; and assigning the two of the word images to the word cluster. 25. The system of claim 14 , wherein a feature vector ID is assigned to the feature vector, identifying both the feature vector and its associated word image.