The present invention relates to a method of decoding images. The method includes the following steps: applying in parallel at least a first and second optical character recognition process to an image, the image including many categorizations; determining if the first and second optical character recognition processes produce a substantially similar image result; if the image result is not similar, selecting a highest weighted OCR process categorization based result; and assigning the highest weighted OCR process categorization based result to the image result on a categorization by categorization basis.