Patent ID: 7343041

Claim:
A method comprising the steps of: determining a first list of possible word transcriptions of a handwritten word; determining, from a plurality of additional lists of possible word transcriptions of handwritten words, at least one second list; and determining which word from the first list or at least one second list should be selected as a best text word transcription of the handwritten word, wherein the step of determining which word from the first list or at least one second list should be selected as a best text word transcription of the handwritten word comprises the steps of: providing a feature of the first and additional lists; and using the feature to select a best text word from the first and at least one additional lists; and wherein each word has a word length, each list comprises a plurality of word scores, wherein each word in each list has a rank based on a corresponding word score, wherein the step of determining at least one second list comprises the step of determining a correlation factor between the first list and each of the additional lists, wherein the step of determining a correlation factor results in a plurality of correlation factor scores, and wherein the feature comprises one or more of word lengths, word ranks, word scores, and correlation factor scores.