1. A Document Image Segmentation method for matching a plurality of templates with a received image from an image source wherein said received image being bitmap data including at least a plurality of gray-scale pixel tiles that define said image, said matching method comprising the steps of: receiving said image data so as to extract pixel tile information of said received image wherein said pixel tile information being of a predetermined matrix size; matching loosely said pixel tile information with at least one of a plurality of templates so as to generate pixel-wise looseness interval values there between wherein looseness intervals are used to determine a match; and outputting an identifier associated with the matching template such that said identifier indicates a classification wherein said classification is used to guide an image processing operation.