vertical projection of character image

Hi. I am using matlab for the first time. Am in need of vertical projection spliting of character image. plz help me out regarding matlab code in a detail manner. thank you..

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

% Project (sum) image vertically to get the horizontal profile.
horizontalProfile = sum(grayImage, 1);

% Project (sum) image horizontally to get the vertical profile.
verticalProfile = sum(grayImage, 2);