Footnotes

...pixels
Acronym for PICture ELement.

...``filled''
Global and adaptive thresholding mechanisms are possible. However, a discussion of these is beyondthe scope of this work.

...ppi
Pixels per inch.

...stroke
In this thesis, images were scanned at 300 ppi.

...accuracy
Generated using ISRI's experimental environment [14]

...#tableerror>
Reproduced from [8] with permission

...stopwords
Common words not normally used in text retrieval searches, such as ``a'', ``of'', ``the''.

...Database
See [11] for more information about ISRI and its databases

...2''
Consult [12] for detailed information on the ``Sample 2'' database

...selected
In some of the more unusual font/pitch combinations this was not possible

...#devtab>)
Reproduced from [12] with permission.

...data
Reproduced from [13] with permission

...micro-gaps
Very thin white-space separating a character's stroke