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Why are faces easier to scan than words?

When I look through photos next to text, the faces are easier (or take a shorter amount of time) to put together and recognize than text. I would *think* that faces would take longer because of the complexities of facial structures whereas text is not as complex, but that's not the case. Why is that? I could be looking too much into it, but I'm curious.
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There is a brain region dedicated to facial-feature recognition (fusiform gyrus in the inferior temporal lobe [usually right hemisphere]). Even infants can discriminate between [upright] faces and scrambled facial features (showing activation of the fusiform gyrus when exposed to the upright face). This is a process thought to be evolutionarily and genetically pre-programmed within deeper [evolutionarily older] brain structures, and has become a very SUBCONSCIOUS process that happens automatically. 

Text on the other-hand requires a bit of processing and decoding. Words themselves, once sight-word phonics is established, require that a symbol be decoded before it is processed and understood. This process is not nearly as ingrained and is a LEARNED behavior that takes practice. You've probably noticed that you've become much better at recognizing words as you've practiced. The eye stops on each word for approximately 1/4th of a second, and conceptualizes it as a picture (sight-word reading, and phonetic awareness [eg. Nonsense words are able to be read such as: "hathcampter" << that requires some processing, but you're able to associate the sounds that these letters will make when combined). For exmalpe, tihs is not extmrely dififlct to raed, becuase yov'ue estbalshed sgiht-wrod reocgniiton alraedy, and each wrod deosn't need to be decdoded indvidually anyomre. So reading words is faster than it once was, but you've been able to "read" faces since you were an infant and developed sight. 

All-in-all, recognizing text is actually more complicated than recognizing faces.