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In this paper, we propose a technique for retrieval of printed Kannada words from a digital repository based on Gabor wavelets and structural features. Gabor wavelets are employed to capture global properties of the underlying image whereas structural features are used to extract the local properties. We call the combination of these features as Glocal. An input document image is segmented into words...