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A Bayesian method of isolating character bitmaps from paragraph-length samples of heavily degraded text images is demonstrated. The method requires a transcript of the text, but it is sufficiently robust to tolerate errors in transcripts obtained from multifont commercial OCR software. The resulting prototypes (labeled character images) are used to recognize additional text an the same document.
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