/**
 * An Screen Rendered Character (SRC) Classifier is able to 
 * return the character class of a given grayscale character image.
 * Valid classes are a-z and A-Z (52 classes).
 * @author Steffen Wachenfeld
 * @version 2009-04-14
 */
public interface SRCClassifer {

	/**
	 * Returns the character class of a given 8Bit-gray image.
	 * The image is given as a 2D matrix of int values.
	 * Values will be scaled 0-255, where 0 is black and 255 is white.
	 * Pixels will be stored with the first dimension being x and the second being y.
	 * Origin is upper left corner of an image.
	 * This results in grayImage[x][y], where grayImage[0][0] is the top-left most pixel
	 * 
	 * @param grayImage 8-Bit gray scale image
	 * @return one of 52 character classes a-z, A-Z
	 */
	public char classifySRC(int[][] grayImage);
	
}