level knowledge sources can then be used to select a decision from the candidate set for each word image. In this paper, we propose that visual inter-word constraints can be used to facilitate candidate selection. Visual inter-word constraints provide a way to link word images inside the text page, and to interpret t h e m systematically. Introduction The objective of visual text recognition is to transform an arbitrary image of text into its symbolic equivalent correctly. Recent technical advances in the area of document recognition have made automatic text recognition a viable alternative to manual key entry. .
